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 252 Till: OPENING OF THE SIEGE. CHAP, garriscjii IVoni hearing the sound of the pickaxe; ' and relays of working parties, numbering alto- gether 1600, were enabled to toil all the night without being molested, so that, when morning dawned, they had thrown up a work some 1100 yards in length, and at a distance of about 1000 yards from the Central Bastion.* ]Ien imagined that the spectacle of what they had been suffered to achieve without hindrance, must needs become a painful one to the enemy as soon as he should discover it. They little imagined — what yet we shall by-and-by see — they little imagined the feeling with which, on the morning of the 10th of October, the garrison would learn that their foe had indeed broken ground, and begun upon that kind of strife which is waged with pickaxe and spade. Progress of Froui tliis time, the French pushed on their works with great spirit ; and, as marking the singular difference that there is between the ways of a French and the ways of an English commander, it seems Avorth while to repeat the order which was issued at this time by Forey. He gave orders for 'zeal,' and 'contempt of dan- ' ger.' ' It is necessary,' said he, in his general order, ' that every one, by his zeal, by his con- ' tempt of danger, should aim at attaining as ' promptly as possible the glorious end which we And of the warlike virtues thus invoked there was no default. The enemy often busied himself tLelr works.
 * propose to ourselves.'
 * 1030 vards.