The great war in England in 1897 . cing in Hewell Park, he awaited for nearly two daysthe reports of his spies. These were not so reassuring as hehad anticipated, for it appeared tliat the higli ground south ofthe city, notably at Kings Norton, Northfield, Harborne,Edgbaston, and along the Hagley lioad, was occupied by strongbodies of troops and a large number of guns, and that everypreparation had been made for a stubborn resistance. 146 The Great War in England in 1897 It also appeared that at the entrance to the city at Spark-brook, which road had been taken by the right column, verylittle
The great war in England in 1897 . cing in Hewell Park, he awaited for nearly two daysthe reports of his spies. These were not so reassuring as hehad anticipated, for it appeared tliat the higli ground south ofthe city, notably at Kings Norton, Northfield, Harborne,Edgbaston, and along the Hagley lioad, was occupied by strongbodies of troops and a large number of guns, and that everypreparation had been made for a stubborn resistance. 146 The Great War in England in 1897 It also appeared that at the entrance to the city at Spark-brook, which road had been taken by the right column, verylittle resistance was likely to be offered. That the positions occupied by the defenders had been verycarefully chosen as the most advantageous the Eussian com-mander was bound to admit, and although he possessed such alarge body of men it would require considerable tactical skill todislodge the defenders in order to prevent them covering withtheir guns the country over which the Eussian division, takingthe right-hand roads, must THE BATTLEFIELD OF BIRMINGHAM. During that day an encounter of a most fierce descriptionoccurred between hostile reconnoitring parties on the roadbetween Bromsgrove Lickey and ISTorthfield. The road gradu-ally ascended with a walled-in plantation on either side, andthe enemy were proceeding at a comfortable pace whensuddenly a number of rifles rattled out simultaneously, andthen it was discovered that the wall had been loopholed, andthat the British were pouring upon them a deadly hail fromwhich there was no shelter. The walls bristled with rifles, and Russian Advance in the Midlands 147 from them came a storm of bullets that killed and woundeddozens of the invaders. The latter, however, showed considerable daring, for whilethe magazine rifles poured fortli their deadly shower, they ralliedand charged up the hill in the face of the fearful odds againstthem. For ten minutes or perhaps a quarter of an hour the fight-ing was a desperate hand-to-hand one
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