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 THE 17TII OF OCTOBER. 4-21 Flagstaff Bastion and the IJedau, the same guns which battered in front the left face of the work could also enfilade the right face.* After some nine hours of firing, Loth Gordon's and Chapman's Attacks had established a clear ascendant over the enemy's ordnance. Though M-itli somewhat less advantnge, in that respect, than the French, the English were still upon heights which connnanded the Paissian de- fences, and looked over into their rear. From this cause, as well as from the effect, in some places, of shot bounding in by ricochet, our siege-guns, from the first, had begun to work a great havoc in those parts of the Eussian batteries which lay towards the gorges of their bastions, as well as amongst the bodies of troops which were posted hard by to await the expected assault. But this was not all ; for, little by little, the whole front of the assailed defences in the Karabel faubourg began to give c H A P. XIII. help to elncidato llie text : — The Rediin. Flagstaff Bastion. TliP Left Attack (Clinpnmii's).
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