The comprehensive history of England : civil and military, religious, intellectual, and social, from the earliest period to the suppression of the Sepoy revolt . that could be offered was from the long-range shot which could be tired from the nume-rous batteries that the Russians had thrown upon the north side of the roadstead, in the rearof the first line ofdefences. At the a])poiutedhour of noon, theattack on the Ma-lakoff French tioopsnimbly crossed theditches and scaledthe parapets; theyrushed forward withshouts of ViveI Empereur ! andcame to close quar-teis with the Rus-sian
The comprehensive history of England : civil and military, religious, intellectual, and social, from the earliest period to the suppression of the Sepoy revolt . that could be offered was from the long-range shot which could be tired from the nume-rous batteries that the Russians had thrown upon the north side of the roadstead, in the rearof the first line ofdefences. At the a])poiutedhour of noon, theattack on the Ma-lakoff French tioopsnimbly crossed theditches and scaledthe parapets; theyrushed forward withshouts of ViveI Empereur ! andcame to close quar-teis with the Rus-sian gunners, assailed withthe bayonet, thebutts of their mus-kets, and stones,while the gunnersin defence wieldedtheir rammei^s, butiu this hopeless re-sistance they were struck down, ca])tured, ordriven out, and in a quarter of a)i hour the tricolorflag hoisted upon the redoubt ju-oelairaed that theMalakofl was taken. The Redan of the CareeningPort was also can-ied aft^r a severe struggle; everywork selected by the French had fallen, and tlieircentre column had arrived as far as the second the Wiiitc Ka>U 1855.] VICTOEIA. 729 J^. inclosure. Aud now was the time for tlie attack i of the great bridge of boats, would have lostof the British upon the Great Redan, as had been its connnunicatiou with the northern side ofconcerted, and accordingly the signal was made i tlie town. But instead of this useless attempt,by the French com-mander - in - chief. ^- -i^^^ste But here the diffi- -^ s-aBSssi:-- ..^aeiX^— culties were greaterthan had been sur-mised, while the spirit of blunder- ? -, insc seemed to have ^ ^- wakened into morethan its former per-verseness. For thestorming paity only1000 men had beenselected, and these,instead of being ourbest and freshestsoldiers, consistedof those who wereworn out by ser-vice in the trenches,and raw recruitslately arrived fromEngland. This mosthopeless of forlorn liopes had also 200 yard3 to traverse before theycould re
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