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 THE ]7TH OF OCTOBER. 297 or 'Chapman's Attack.' The third, called the chap. XIII ]i.islit,' or ' Gordon's Attack,' was on the Woron- L. zoff Height, and its two-faced array of batteries mounted 26 pieces. Without counting the batteries of the Jagoudil those of tiie 11 1 r ^ r Russians. — a ship lying moored across the head of the Man- of-war Harbour * — or any other of the guns still on deck which could be more or less brought into use, the Russians, we saw, had in battery for the land defence of Sebastopol on its south side 341 pieces of artillery ; but of these, there stood opposed to the batteries established by the Allies only 118 pieces, including five heavy mortars.f Amongst the rest of the 118 pieces there were some guns of great calibre ; but, upon the whole, a salvo from the 126 battering pieces now pre- pared for the siege was a good deal more weighty than one from the 118 pieces with which the Russians meant to engage them.| It therefore appears that, as regards the weight of ordnance brought into actual service for the artillery conflict of the 17th of October, the gar- rison was inferior to its assailants ; but it must be understood that, irrespectively of the 118 pieces thus awaiting an encounter with the battering guns of the besiegers, the Allies, if proceeding to assault, might have to incur whilst advancing not only the shell and the shot of ships' guns head of the Man-of-war Creek with her larboard broadside to- wards the besiegers. t Todleben, p. 334. J 12 per cent greater, according to Todleben, ibid.
 * The Jagoudil was an 84-gnn sliip which lay at the very