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 442 TIIK CANNONADE STILL MAINTAINED. CHAP, liedaii and tlio neiglibouring work was not re- Il_ garded as furnishing an opportunity for the storm- ing of the Karabel faubourg ; and, since plainly it might now be expected that the havoc wrought in the day-time would again be repaired by the enemy in the course of the night, the success of this second cannonade did not serve to rekindle the hopes with which the first morning had opened. seathni Amoiigst tliosc who fell on this day was Hood. Colonel Hood of the Grenadier Guards. Whilst in command of a coveriug party in the trenches he was struck in the side by a round-shot, and died almost immediately. He had not lived in vain. On the Alma, and under trying conditions, we saw how he led his battalion.* Feat of Cap- In the coursc of the day's cannonade, there occurred an incident which shows how instan- taneous in heroic natures is the process of both the thought and the resolve from which brave actions spring. A team of horses engaged in dragging up annnunition for the 'Diamond' bat- and one 'deeply lamented.'— Letter to Secretary of State, October 23, 1854. An officer of the Grenadier Guards writes thus of his honoured chief: 'He was looking out of an em- ' brasure when a round-.shot caught him in the side. He died ' almost immediately— died as a soldier, as did his father be- ' fore him. He is a very great loss to us.' The officer who wrote thus— Prince Edward of Saxc-Weimar — was himself wounded on the following day ; and I see that Lord Raglan ill communicating the incident adds: 'His Serene Highness, ' liowever, insisted upon remaining in the trenches until the ' detachment to which he was attached was relieved at the ' usual hour.' — Ibid.
 * Lord Raglan wrote of Colonel Hood as an excellent officer,