The comprehensive history of England : civil and military, religious, intellectual, and social, from the earliest period to the suppression of the Sepoy revolt . ssian artillery upon theridge still maintained its position to cover theirretreating columns, and check the advance of theallies. The hand-to-hand fight was thus changedinto a distant cannonade, in which fortune mighthave yet changed sides ; for the Russian gunswere greatly superior both in numbers and cali-bre to those of the allies, and served with admir-able skill and perseverance. Their chief fire wasupon the position of our secon
The comprehensive history of England : civil and military, religious, intellectual, and social, from the earliest period to the suppression of the Sepoy revolt . ssian artillery upon theridge still maintained its position to cover theirretreating columns, and check the advance of theallies. The hand-to-hand fight was thus changedinto a distant cannonade, in which fortune mighthave yet changed sides ; for the Russian gunswere greatly superior both in numbers and cali-bre to those of the allies, and served with admir-able skill and perseverance. Their chief fire wasupon the position of our second division, andwith deadly eifect, when Lord Raglan orderedtwo eighteen-pounders of our siege train to bebrought up. It seemed all but impossible todrag such heavy pieces over the rough ground,and through the miry tracks that interposed,but the arduous feat was ably and quickly per-formed by the united strength of a multitude ofmen and horses; and the guns being placed in position, their shot crashed through the Russianbatteries, sweeping off their men and dismount-ing their guns at every discharge. They wereobliged to retire their artillery to the top of. ZoTJAVES.—From the Illustrated London News. the hill, and finally to limber them up and with-draw them, leaving their retieating columns be-low to the fierce pursuit of the Indigenes andZouaves. Such were the chief movements of this victoryof Inkermann; and they were thus briefly anddistinctly described by Geneial Canrobert on_the same evening, in the account which he drewup:—A great portion of the Russian army,favoured by the night and the fog, was enabledto establish itself, with powerful artillery, uponthe heights which form the extreme right of our230sition. Two English divisions sustained anunequal fight with the invincible solidity whichwe know to be the characteristic of our allies,while a part of the Bosquet division, conductedby its worthy chief, came up to their support, andrushed upon the enemy with a boldness
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