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 THE CANNONADE STILL MAINTAINED. 441 effectively afterwards, the French had determined chap. to abstain one day more from going on with their fire ; but the English batteries, not requiring delay, ^equVed by "were to renew their cannonade on the morrow. theFrencii. The dawn of the 18th of October threw painful Momingi.f ^ the istli. lioht on the prospects of the Allies : for it dis- changed ° ^ / state of the closed the superiority of the enemy's resources defences, in that very species of contest to which they had imprudently challenged him. In the night time, as now was apparent, he had so used his great command of both labour and material appliances as to be ready once more for the strife, with para- pets restored and re-armed. However, though with a more careful economy The English cannonade, of ammunition than had been hitherto observed, isth of ' October. the English fire was resumed, and steadily main- tained all the day. By this fresh cannonade the re-constituted de- fences of the liedan and the Barrack Battery were once more brought to a state of ruin, and in the day-time, whilst under the fire of the English guns, the enemy could neither repair nor re-arm his shattered works. The position of the Left attack proved so commanding that the guns there established searched the interior of the enemy's batteries with a terrible power, and obliged him to determine that he must double the number of his traverses. In killed and wounded the Russians this day lost 543 men. Yet, taking place, as it did, at the time when the French batteries were still in their silenced state, the destruction thus brought about in the