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 170 THE APRIL BOMBARDMENT. CHAP. VI. tery under Captain Henry on morning of the 14th of April. Artillery, having undei him Lieutenant Conolly,* and thirty-five men. Again, as on the previous morning, it was with four 32-pounders only that the ' advanced No. ' VII.' at daylight once more delivered its chal- lenge to such of the hundred guns opposite as the enemy might deign to unleash against so small an antagonist.! Captain Henry engaged the Barrack Batteries, and they answered him with a power that soon proved him to be hugely overmatched ; whilst also he was assailed front and flank by the Gar- den Batteries, and placed besides under fire — under strong enfilading fire — by the (proper) left face of the Flagstaff Bastion. In so far as Captain Henry could see, his four guns were working no havoc in the mighty array of the ' Barrack ' defences ; and the enemy, — not, this time, provoked by the silencing of his ' Crow's ' Nest ' battery, — was of course unimpelled by the rage — rage vented in unmeasured storms of artil- lery-fire — which had given a wild, strange char- acter to the fight of the previous day maintained in the same little battery ; whilst moreover, this day on its right, the now armed and unmasked 'No. VIII.' was drawing some of the fire that might otherwise have been lavished on the sister f As to the hundred guns potentially opposing our advanced batteries, see ante, i>. 148. Much of what goes before, includ- ing especially the pages from p. 147 to p. 153, applies to the conditions under which this fight of the 14th took place.
 * Now no more.