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 100 THE ENEMY'S GREAT NIGHT ATTAl K. chap. Jordan went on endeavouring to increase the IV ' small number of 34th men already brought under his leadership. The detachment of the 7th Fusiliers under Captain Cavendish Browne was coming up in a collected state ; and finally, Colonel Tylden of the Eoyal Engineers (the officer destined to command our people in the approaching combat), got together the men of the working-parties whose labours he before had been guiding, and caused them to stand to their arms. Fight ai The conflict drew to a head on the sight of a &itte£r r. Lar new mortar battery which occupied the trench near its centre. The enemy advanced on this battery from the west, the English from the east, and within it the two forces met, moving each of them with bayo- nets fixed alongside the parapet, and of course therefore facing the traverses. At the first tra- verse, the Eussians made a protracted stand. Colonel Tylden came up in person, and his own idea seemingly was to execute a charge straight forward from east to west along the foot of the parapet ; but our people instead, with a rush, drove their way round the end of the traverse, overthrew at the point of the bayonet all they then found before them, and, pursuing, ap- proached the next traverse, where the enemy Defeat and made his last stand. Colonel Tylden by yet u^ian* 110 ' one charge more' overcame the resistance there column. offered, drove the Eussians all out of the battery, and pursued them some way along the course of the trench, but the fugitives before very long