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      j,..'l§llt;’;_Stort_liiiig_, it Sebiistoptil. . (L 
     
    
   
   
    
     . carruna arm nose or run ~Rl-JDAN. - 
     
     Camp before Sebastopol‘, Sep. 10, 1855. 
     
     . .»Th_e bouibardment, which had been kept 
     
     up-with less. vigour than usual during the 
     
     light of the 7th; broke‘ out at daybreak into 
     
     a complete. fire from endto end of our lines. 
     
     It burst o-ver evei‘y'_part';,‘¢lf the Russian 
     
     works-xvith the‘fu‘r_y' ill‘ a‘ tornado, send- 
     
     the up clouds or. dust, and smite; 
     
     which were driven into our camp with a 
     
     oold_north wind, blinding the.niea whose 
     
     dlltyucalled them to the trenches, and filling 
     
     Ihe.u'r so densely, as to render- objects in- 
     
     distinct at a certain distance. Asthe bom- 
     
     bardment commenced, preparations for the 
     
     assault were made in the camps of the Al~ 
     
     lies, and numerous regiments were drawn 
     
     up under arms at dawn.‘ It had been‘con- 
     
     aidered proper to'forward the men in de- 
     
     tachments, and ‘not in columns, so as to 
     
     keep the enemy, as much nspossible, igno- 
     
     rant of our intentions. The .stoi'iiiiiig was 
     
     'entru‘st'ed to the Second and Light Divisions, 
     
     portions of which were to form immediate 
     
     supports, whilst the rear was to be kept by 
     
     the Fouith Division, the Guards and High- 
     
     -landers, and the Third Division. Sir \Vil- 
     
     linm Codrington had the’ general command 
     
     ofthe storming, and was supported by Ge- 
     
     nera! Markham. There was no visible. 
     
     movement on the part of the Russians. aml 
     
     the northern camps, as well as the bridge, 
     
     were unusually quiet. They semed passive- 
     
     ly to wait for the cessation of our fire, 
     
     answering but at intervals only, from their 
     
     guns, and either unable or unwilling to re- 
     
     ply. At half-past nine, all the regiments of 
     
     the Second and Light Divisions, as well as 
     
     the generals and staff, had made their way 
     
     into the trenches; Gen. Codi-ington taking 
     
     up his position in the fifth parallel, whilst 
     
     General Markham had his in a pit called 
     
     Egerton’s Pit, in the third parallel. The 
     
     atormers consisted of portions of the 30th, 
     
     llst, 55th, and 62d, from the Second Di- 
     
     vision; of the 90th, 97th, 23d, and 88th, 
     
     from the Light Division. The ladder par- 
     
     ties were told oil‘ from the 3d Bulls and 
     
     97th Regiment. The supports of these 
     
     regiments, as well as other regiments of the 
     
     name division, were in reserve in the fourth 
     
     and third parallels ready for action. At 
     
     the foot of the Malakhotf had also been 
     
     massed stormers from the French First Di- 
     
     vision, consisting, of 400 men of the lat 
     
     Zouaves and 450 men of the 1st Chasseurs 
     
     do Vincennes, under the command of Gen. 
     
     M‘Mahon. The fifth Division furnished 
     
     stormers for the Little Redan and the works 
     
     on the properlctt of the Malakhotf. 'The 
     
     Second Division kept the trenches, whilst 
     
     the Fourth was in reserve. Gen. Pelissler 
     
     and his staffrodo through the'British camp 
     
     on the way to Inkermann at half-past eleven,- 
     
     .pasaing the‘ Guards and Highlanders as 
     
     they moved up"the Woronzoif-road to the 
     
     trenches. Gen. Simpson took up a position 
     
     near the Picket-house on the Woronzoff- 
     
     road. There were few" spectators on the 
     
     hills, on account of precautions taken .by 
     
     n. Simpson to stop all egress from Bttla 
     
     Clava. But the few who were fortunate 
     
     enough in gaining admittance to Catlicart- 
     
     hill were blinded by the dust audvnaw no- 
     
     thing, and the only eye-wituessesof the 
     
     -Atorm were those who took part in it, or 
     
     those who formed the supports of the storm- 
     
     ers. At a few minutes before noon, the 
     
     bombardment was urged to a terrific blaze 
     
     of fire, which‘ poured upon the Russians 
     
     from embrasures purposely kept closed un- 
     
     til that moment. Atjten minutes past twelve 
     
     the signal for the storming of the Malakhoff 
     
     was given by the eiiploinon of two mince 
     
     close to the conntersear , and in the con- 
     
     fusion caused b the smoke and uproar the 
     
     'Zounves and hasseurs rushed on hey 
     
     made their way oyer'ground ploughed by 
     
     the explosion of shells, and full of holes and 
     
     elevations of jagged and irregular forma- 
     
     ion. Their speed was acnrcel impeded 
     
     by this obstacle, and they jumps down the 
     
     ditch, and up" the sides of the works with- 
     
     t using the sealing-ladders. The Run- 
     
     Eu, who were completely taken by ear- 
     
     Eae, were driven out of the redoubt, or 
     
     f 
     
    
   
   
    
     ltd, or let! the French 
     
     "5l¢l|‘vaparatod the ditch of the Mnlahh 
     
    
   
   
    
     rfect masters 
     
    
   
   
    
      r!iASi1§~if5D'i3 "GAZETTE. OCTOBER fits.  
     
    
   
   
    
     the lfll‘-llIt‘l‘al.8 issue of ‘the storm. ,ln':tttie 
     
     meanwhile two other attacks had been ail- 
     
     iuqst_ sitnu taineoifsly made‘ upon the Rue 
     
     sinus, with f_ur‘léss‘foi-tiiiiate results. (ien. 
     
     Codringtou, hearing tl'ie"signal_'o'f the as- 
     
     sault on the _Malukhofi',"aftcr it short pause 
     
     gav_e,'tliq order to stbriii tli'_eRedi_iii. The 
     
     adder parties ofvthe 3d and '97‘t_li"da.slicd 
     
     out,,_cnd favoured by toleiiably ev'en ground 
     
     raised the abattis, ivitli‘ no sens-'ilile obsltlitle 
     
     to their p_r_ogrcss, and pla._tilc'd‘ their ladders 
     
     on, the salient angle ofltheir work. The 
     
     storinei-s<les's active tliiin they 'liadIbeen, 
     
     were delayed by their inability to issue 
     
     from the parallel except by one aperture, 
     
     and when"'they succeeded in reaching the 
     
     schrp ofthe Redan, the ladder party llilll 
     
     already mounted to’ the assault. The 
     
     stormers followed, mounting on each side 
     
     ofthe salient angle, aml fought their way 
     
     into the Redan, killing the Russians within 
     
     the first traverse; but, in their eiigerm-as 
     
     tooutsirip each other, the parties on the 
     
     righ‘t pressed across the work to join those 
     
     on the ‘left, and doing so fell into the con‘- 
     
     ccntratcil fire ofthe enemy, whose stipports, 
     
     upwards of2,0U0 in number, were rapidly 
     
     coming up. A hand-to-hand coul'lict fol- 
     
     lowcd, desperate in its nature-the lins- 
     
     sians figlitiiig for the hold with the tenacity 
     
     of bears, and using every sort ofiiiissilc in 
     
     addition to their arms. Stones, loose grape, 
     
     stocks of broken muskcts, were hurled in 
     
     volleys from the summit of the traverses, 
     
     on our men, whose ammunition begun to 
     
     fail. They in their turn grasped at stones, 
     
     and hurled them against the Russians; who 
     
     now, encouraged by the arrival ofreinforce- 
     
     ments, and the dimunition of our men, 
     
     poured down upon our devoted stormers, 
     
     and fought with them hand to hand. Many 
     
     were the despairing elforts that then took 
     
     place-—men clung to men, and the death 
     
     agonv of both was undergone on the shine 
     
     spot. This was too terrible to last. Either 
     
     our Generals must bring on supports, or the 
     
     stormers retr.-.it. The former was delayed, 
     
     and the renimmt of our men gave way in 
     
     disorder from the parapets and einbrusiires 
     
     which they had so gallantly stormed. fll 
     
     this time (here were several wgiinuils in the 
     
     3d, 4th, and 5th parallels, irliicli «lid not 
     
     move suflicicnlly quiclr, and were not in lime 
     
     (0 save (he relics of the slorint-rs. The Iii’- 
     
     dan was that won and lost. 
     
    

    
     The French attack on the little Rcdan 
     
     and works upon the Carecning Bay were 
     
     failures for other reasons. The troops 
     
     moved resolutely on, rapidly crossing a 
     
     broad space, which lay between them and 
     
     the Russian redoubts. They were thrown 
     
     into considerable confusion by rows of holes 
     
     called tr-our a loup, into which the men 
     
     stumbled in the darkness caused by dust 
     
     and smoke; their attack was deprived by 
     
    
   
   
    
     those of lwliicli we have’ ‘all. read in the 
     
     glowing pages ol:.Cooper, ‘Theserpainful 
     
     phtises of the conibinéd assault proceeded 
     
     whilst the iiiain attack on the ,.lV,’llll‘tll(llU_ff 
     
     aupidly lost ‘its eayly cliar_acter_iptics.' _IlvlS 
     
     dillic-u_l't to give such it picture ofthe ivoi-k 
     
     us maybfprnishl an appi-oxiipaye Idea ,o,l its 
     
     puma.-¢iQ’;,5' ubd ‘spent, ]3ut'_.tlie _d(.‘t!Cl'I]Iv 
     
     tion ofit'wi|,l, perliaps,‘:be sulflfi‘-Wl“ '39 030"‘ 
     
     some coiiception of its nature, tui,d_c,liitrac- 
     
     tcrize the aspect of this as well 33.3318. ‘Ro- 
     
     den and other forts held by the liusstalls. 
     
     The ditch was about fifteen fort _de(‘1{.._,,ilIId 
     
    

    
     the scnrp twenty feet high. _Tll0 CIIIlll'l!- 
     
     sitnels and platforms were ,clevatcd above 
     
     the level of the work, which was divided 
     
     into p.irt's' by li'nvcrses of irrcgularsltapci 
     
     in which small openings were lt3‘fl.f:tlf lhe 
     
     passage of men. These l.l'llV.l.:I‘h‘iC5. ‘were 
     
     mostly quarried woiksjthc galleries of \i'liieli 
     
     were supported by double roivs of gigantic 
     
     beams of Norway pine, and the height of: 
     
     i-artli .forming the roof made cv'ery_ ‘vault 
     
     bo_inh-proof. The traverses generally mt-:1-‘ 
     
     sored twelve to fifteen feet in h'ciglit,‘and, 
     
     being most irregular in t_lrclI' f0|'|". ",|":“l‘ 
     
     have rendered complete possession t:,\;ticnIU- 
     
     ly tliilicult. The livdim was simil:irl_v ill‘. 
     
     rtingi-il iiiternzilly; and this pt.'cltlinI'it_V 0l~ 
     
     ('0Il\‘ll’llCll(Ill ticcouuts for the iii:icti'\"il_v of 
     
     the lliissiziii.-' during the last boinbaiiduit-ut,v 
     
     the soldiers coin.-i-iiliiig lllf)IllSl‘lVl‘.S in lllOil'I 
     
     CflS(!ln(‘lIl.~i till such time as the llt‘!I\'y. lire 
     
     should ct.-use. It does not appear Cll.ll(.‘I' 
     
     that the guards ofthese works were cliung«rd_ 
     
     oftener than inonlhly, for every portion ol 
     
     this quarter bore proofs of permanent oc- 
     
     ctipation; that of the Commander being 
     
     filled with arm-chairs, pictures, and lux- 
     
     uries; whilst workshops for carpenters and 
     
     masons were fitted up. 
     
    

    
     The very security ofthe soldiers in tlicse 
     
     strongholds must have increased a chance 
     
     of surprise, and the instant occiipatioii of 
     
     the work and destruction of its def:-iiders in 
     
     a short period are a proof of it. The Rus- 
     
     sians, liowevcr, did not passively allow 
     
     thcireneiny to enjoy his new posscssioiz. 
     
     They had no sooner lH‘Cll driven out than 
     
     they attacked the French with the energy 
     
     ofdcspuir, and the Zouavos und Cliassi-iirs 
     
     fluud tlieiuselves (lcfcnders, instead of us- 
     
    
   
   
    
     iiiiithegiastelrn face liudf; bison turned into 
     
     eniln-asmies from which .nlIlpa«’- 0l\|'|‘0n8de8 
     
     playedrcpbn the Malaklintf: and thoascent 
     
     ' l The rapidity’ of‘ the French mold- 
     
     ment when thc_ Russians first commenced 
     
     their" retreat, prevented the lutter.“from 
     
     using, tiieii-‘secoiid line of defence efllicicus- 
     
     _ ' rug" hand.-to-liaiid conflict dpwn the 
     
     descent did not enable them to ill a foe 
     
     wgghoug degu-nving.a friend; and thus -the 
     
     Fmncli passed down t'rom'tha l\lalakhofl' 
     
     i'¢3ivn.»ds the imiii until-they ciime_to the 
     
     lose or the hill, l and mi n‘tev,eI‘vuth the 
     
     D‘bckyprd. .From tluit spot they receded, 
     
     moving to their i-iglit, and drivxing (hp Rus- 
     
     siansthrough the streets of the K8|‘IIl-Ielnfllfl 
     
     suburb; «whilst the -iiclil. artillery and some 
     
     of tho' lighter guus- left ' in the Malalthoif 
     
     tvdpc turned against the‘ second line of de- 
     
     l'ett'ce, which it successfully enfiladed. 
     
     Darkness now 'supervencd,, and the Rus- 
     
     sians, under its cover, withdrew from the 
     
     ivonlis of the Kai-alielnitia, the Little Redan, 
     
     and Black Battery. 
     
     D rue FRI-'.\'(‘l| LE1‘ LOOSE AT rue 
     
     . ' ;\lAl..tl\'ll0l-'l-‘. 
     
     The Torture, .'l'u‘rks, and Eupgitorians woro 
     
     singularly pL‘l'llll'l)('(l for such placid people, 
     
     and tlironged every knoll which coiiunundod the 
     
     siuallest \'ll.'\\' of the place. At 10.45, General 
     
     Pelissier and his stud went up to the French 
     
     Observatory on the right. "he Freneli trenches 
     
     were covered with men as close as they could 
     
     ack, and we could sue our men through the 
     
     iireaks in the clouds of dust, which were most. 
     
     irritutiiw, all ready in their trenches. The 
     
     cuiiiioiiai o languished purposely towards noon: 
     
     but the llussinns, eiiteliing sight of the cavalry 
     
     and troops in front, began to shell C:tt.hcart's 
     
     hill und the liviglits, and disturbed the equa- 
     
     iiiiiiit ' of suite of the spectators by their shells 
     
     lnirsting with lotid “thuds" right over their 
     
     l.ea<ls. A few iniuutes before 12, the French 
     
     like a ‘swarm ofbcos, issued forth from their 
     
     trenches close to the doomed l\luliiklioll',sivarnied 
     
     up its fucc, and were through the euibrasure in 
     
     tho twinkling of an eye. They crossed the 
     
     seven metres ofgrouud which separated them 
     
     from the enemy at a few bounds—they drifted 
     
     as lightly and quickly as autumn leaves before 
     
     the wind, battalion after battalion, into the 
     
     iembriisures, and in a minute or two after the 
     
     head of the coliiiun issued from the ditch, the 
     
     tricolour was floating over the Korniloff Bas- 
     
     tion. The lullSk(‘ll'_\' was very feeble at. firet- 
     
     indecd. our allies took tho Russians quite by 
     
    
   
   
    
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     suultcrs, of the Malakliolf. They fought 
     
     with all the energy of pride and success, 
     
     and for a considerable time kept up an 
     
     unequal struggle against superior lllllIlbt,‘l'.~‘. 
     
     The Russizuis trusted more to stones mid 
     
     inissilos ofthut nature than to their inuskt-ts; 
     
     and froui the summits ofthe traverses they 
     
     liuried all kinds of miscellaneous articles, 
     
     such as stones, beams, buckets, old ginpt‘— 
     
     shot, and iiiuskets. The French, short of 
     
     ammunition, replied with the some weiipon.~', 
     
     varying their resistance by rushes at the 
     
     point of the bayonet. They were giving 
     
    
   
   
    
     this of its firmness, and was repulsed" by the 
     
     enemy. The struggle, however, was iiinin- 
     
     tained doubtfully for a considerable time. 
     
     The first body of stormers, almost annihi- 
     
     lated by the musketry of the Russians, 
     
     covered the pnrapets of the works with their 
     
     bodies; when fresh supports came up', and 
     
     ‘struggled togaiil the summit oi the scarp;_ 
     
     but at every fresh attempt they fell back 
     
     discomfited into the ditch, covering the 
     
     ground with dead and dying. The Russians 
     
     not'only had the advantage of position, but 
     
     they had been materially assisted in this 
     
     portioil of the attack by the steamers, which 
     
     fired broadsides upon the Malakhoffand the 
     
     counterscraps of the Little Redan. The 
     
     Vladimir—-always so ably handled that, 
     
     when‘ anything daring was done by the 
     
     Russians, the French said, c’csl du Vladimir 
     
     —steamed rapidly up under the very mouths 
     
     of the French batteries on Mount Sapoune, 
     
     delivered her broadside, and then majesti- 
     
     cally steaming round, delivered 'a second, 
     
     without eliciting in the confusion any reply 
     
     from the reach. so broadside: com- 
     
     mitted dreadful havod, and threw the ranks 
     
     of the assaulting columns into inextricable 
     
     confusion. Notwithstanding every adverse 
     
     circumstance, however, the French, main- 
     
     tained their ground at the foot of the Icarp 
     
     and in the ditch of the Little Redan, and 
     
     Black Batteries, firing resolutely at every 
     
     Russian who showed himself over the para- 
     
     pet, whilst the Russians on their part were 
     
     eqpally Fquieh in returnin shot for shot 
     
     w on a renehman raised is non more 
     
    
   
   
    
     “Rho abort distance of twenty-five yards thannaual. This part of the gin partook 
     
     at least of a ‘certain Indian character, the 
     
    
   
   
    
     (rain the parallel, contributing not a little to ,nti-nggle froar cover to cover resembling 
     
    
   
   
    
     way, however, before the advancing ‘Rus- 
     
     ,sians, discouraged by the intelligence of 
     
     :impending failure at the Redan and Black 
     
     :W0rl(s; but, precisely at that critical mo- 
     
     ment, the supports ofthe division marched 
     
     up, and entered tlie' work on all sides. 
     
     The Imperial Guard, consisting ofGrenl1- 
     
     dicrs and Zouavcs, swarmed into thc.Mala- 
     
     khofi' and commenced a desperate ‘conflict. 
     
     Hand to hand amongnst the labyrinthine 
     
     windings of the rcdoubt, amongst shell 
     
     holes, broken gubions, and irreguliir eleva- 
     
     tions, each side fouglit and bled. They‘fel,l 
     
     side by side, and in many instances above 
     
     each other. The ground was strewed with 
     
     them, so as to be completely invisible. To 
     
     add to the horror ofthe moment, the shells 
     
     from the'R‘edhii and steamers fell in numb- 
     
     er_s upon the portion of the work in poss- 
     
     ession of the French, and added to the 
     
     heaviness of ther lossess. But the Russians 
     
     were unable to re ain the Malakliolf. As 
     
     the French poure in fresh sup one every 
     
     moment, and brought in field aiiillery over 
     
     a hasty bridgeinto the redoubt, the Run- 
     
     sians slowly yielded, and commenced a 
     
     retreat which ended in arout. The scene 
     
     ofit” was theiwa lending from the dock- 
     
     ynrd to the Mala bod’, a road traced, inside 
     
     of theneeond line of defence, to which the 
     
     Russians trusted as a means of retrievin 
     
    

    
     their losses. A long series of batteries ha 
     
    

    
     been erected from the foot of the Malakliod 
     
     to the Naval Hospital, part of them 
     
     bearin u on the Rodeo and part upon the 
     
     Malalt off.’ A large six-gun battery’ at the 
     
     base of the southern front of the hospital 
     
     had been armed with 68 pottnders, and the 
     
     windows in the ground-floor of the hospital 
     
    
   
   
    
     stir urine. and very few of the latter were in the 
     
     Muiakotf; but they soon recovered themselves, 
     
     and from twelve o‘clock till past 7 in the even- 
     
     ing, thu'Frcncli bad to meet and defeat the 
     
     repeatcil attempts ofthe enemy to regain the 
     
     work and the Little Iledan, when, weary of the 
     
     fearful slaughter of his men, who lay in thon- 
     
     sands over the exterior of the works, the Mus- 
     
     covite General, despairing of sticccss, with- 
     
     drew his exhausted legions, and prepared, with 
     
     adniirable skill, to evacuate the place. 
     
    

    
     THE alurisii ATTACK on Tue anon. 
     
    

    
     The attacking columns were not strong 
     
     enough, and were also too far behind, and the 
     
     trenches did not ullord room for it suflicient 
     
     number ofinon. Where we attacked the Redan 
     
     with two divisions only, a portion of each be- 
     
     ing virtuall in reserve, and not engaged in the 
     
     utfuir at nl . the French made their nssuulton 
     
     the i\lalakliotl‘with four divisions of the second 
     
     corps 4!‘ nrmr-e, the tirst and fourth divisions 
     
     forming the storming columns. and the third 
     
     and titftti being the support withreserves of 
     
     10,000 men. The French had probably not 
     
     one than 30,000 men in the right attack. 
     
     rossmo Ur run" nu: riitsr ‘FOOT in ‘mi: 
     
     . . .. iiainirt. 
     
    

    
     Brigadier Shirley was on board-ship but, 
     
     as soon as he heard of the assault he resol- 
     
     ved to join his brigade, and be accordingly 
     
     came up to caaip that very morning. ‘oi. 
     
     Unett.oftlic liltli, was the senior ofiicer in 
     
     Brigadier Shirley’: absence, and on him 
     
     would have devolved the duty of leading 
     
     the storming column of the Light Division, 
     
     had the latter not returned. Col. Uhett, 
     
     ignoiant-' of the Brigndier’s intention to 
     
     leave shipboard, bad to decide with Col. 
     
     Windham, who should take precedence in 
     
     the attack. _ They toned, and Col. Unett 
     
     won. He hadit in his power to any, whe- 
     
     ther he would go that or follow Col. 
     
     Windham. He looked at the shilling, 
     
     turned it over, and said, “My choice‘ is 
     
     made; I'll be the that man into the Redaii." 
     
     But fate willed it otherwise, and he was 
     
     etruclt'do'wn badly wounded, ere yet he 
     
     reached the abattie, although he was not 
     
     leading the column. Scarcelyhad the men 
     
     let! the filth arallef, when the III]! on the 
     
     flank of the edan opened on them as they 
     
     moved up rapidly to the salient, in which 
     
     there were iii‘ no cannon, an the 
     
     nature‘ of such a work does not permit of 
     
    
   
   
    
     I