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 4 tG THE CANNONADE STILL JLVIXTAINED. CHAP, lliey also found means to provide themselves, as '__ the struggle continued, with a more and more efficient protection against the missiles of war. The comparative immunity enjoyed by the gar- rison after the 19th of October they owed mainly to the traverses and other defensive works which were growing up I'ound them each niglit, but in part also to the skill which they were acquiring from practice in the art of descrying and eluding the heavier missiles of war. On the 18th, as we saw (when only the English were firing), the Eus- siaiis in killed and wounded lost no less than 543 men ; but although, during the six days Avhich fullowed the 19th of October, a cannonade equally vigorous was maintained by both the French and the English, yet during that period the average daily loss of the Eussians in killed and wounded was reduced to 254. The whole loss in killed and wounded which the Eussians sustained from the siege down to the evening of the 2oth of October was officially stated to be 3834. Measures for But whilst Todlcbcn tlius met all the exigencies •jgtijc' of the daily cannonade, he devoted yet more of proaciics. his skiU and energy to the object of counteracting what he now perceived to be the main design of the Allies. From the moment when, on the morning of the 18th of October, he saw how the French on Mount Eodolph had newly opened the ground along a distance of four or five hundred yards, he assured himself that they had deter- mined to assail the Flagstaff Bastion by regular approaches. As an engineei-, he entirely approved