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 420 THE CANNONADE OF CHAI'. fesscd tliG ill pliglit of the French, there ycjt was ^ one part of the field where the cause of tin; actioiTof*^ Allies seemed to prosper. This was in the Eng- kncMKu!-'^'' lish batteries. There, from break of day to that tones: critical afternoon-time which we are now ap- proaching, our cannoneers — sailors nnd landsmen their effect. — -had becu wcU fulfilling their p^rt. Not only had they sustained with advantage their now single-handed conflict with the Flagstaff Bastion and the ' Garden Batteries' — works which for the first three or four hours of the bond)ardment had been under fii-e from Mount Rodolph as well as from Chapman's Attack — but they were fast achieving almosi: all that could have been hoped from their efforts against that part of the enemy's lines — his lines in the Karabel faubourg — which they more especially undertook to assail. The truth is, that in his exceeding eagerness to overwhelm the French works on INIount Bodolph, Colonel do Todleben had devoted too little of his care to those blank-looking mounds on Green Hill and the Woronzoff Heights, which, at distances of 1300 or 1400 yards, marked the seat of the Eng- lish Attacks; but at even an early hour, the great Engineer had perceived that — because mounting guns of great power, and planted with excellent skill — these batteries were operating with destructive power against a vital t^art of the liussian defences; and he seems to have felt to the quick (though seeing it all the time with a genuine, scientific approval) the telling effect of Attacks so disposed that, both as respected tho