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 AND TREPAIUNG. 287 try. By dint of our greater strength in what con- c ii a p. cerns trenchwork and ordnance, we will crush L_ ' and extinguish his batteries. Mount Ifodolph ' shall be the example. The whole line of guns ' which the French mean to plant on its crest shall • be under a dominant five.' To execute this plan of aggressive defence, hismca. •^ °^ . „ sures. Todleben not only caused several portions of the existing parapets to be pierced for additional suns beariniT well on the works of the French, but planted at once five new batteries, all formed with the same special aim. One of these, throM'n up on a site more than two hundred yards in advance of the nearest bastion, and searching with an enfilade fire the right flank of the trench on Mount liodolph, gave General Bizot a sample of the enterprise, the skill, and, if so one may speak, the agility with which his unknown counter - actor could wage a Avarfare of earth- works. At the same time, Colonel de Todleben so ranged or so altered the armaments of the Flagstaff, the Central, and the Land Quarantine, that, from every one of those bastions, the works of the French might be made to undergo heavy tire. When the English works grew into sight on the mornings of the lltli and the 12th of Octo- ber, Colonel de Todleben prepared to encounter them by increasing the power of his ordnance along the Eedan and the jMalakoff, as well as by prolonging a battery already established in rear of the Flagstaff Bastion j but his measures against