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 THE ENEMY'S GREAT NIGHT ATTACK. 101 were all of them over the parapet and making chap. off towards the Kedan. ,, 1_ The two English detachments engaged. in this part of the field lost, three officers an,d several men.* « ■. -*„, ... I Whilst this last combat was raging, yet one Beraieflrs ° . surprise of other sortie began, and was directed against our ourad- ° vanced Left Attack. A column commanded by Beruleff siege-works J in the Left about 500 in number, moved out against that Attack, foremost trench at the base of Green Hill which was afterwards called the 4th Parallel.! Fav- oured greatly, as had been other columns, by the darkness of the night and the roaring of the wind, but also by the sound of the fighting then rife on the Woronzoff Eidge, this column surprised and drove in the detachments of the 20th Regi- ment, which had lined the parapet of the advanced trench, and, driving forward yet further, a great number of the assailants soon entered the two new and incomplete batteries, the ' advanced No. ' VII.' and the ' advanced No. VIII.,' which had been established in our 3d Parallel, there surpris- ing the 'working-parties' — 250 in number — which under Captain Montagu of the Eoyal Engineers were busied in thickening the parapets. The rest of the assailants, if minded to pursue their advan- tage, were still at the time hanging back in or and Lieutenant Jordan of the 34th were killed, and Lieutenant McHenry of the 34th Regiment wounded. t Todleben puts the strength of this column at 475, with besides a company of the Okhotsk regiment in reserve. — Vol. ii. p. 76.
 * Captain the Hon. Cavendish Browne of the 7th Fusiliers