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 106 THE KAM'IVIIATKA LUNETTE. chap, bands of the Russians till a day or two afterwards, v ! when, as the French had done before them, they spontaneously relinquished what Ouroussoff had thought to be a great prize. It was after his capture of the Volhynia Re- doubt, and indeed on the following day that — stricken unhappily by a merely chance shot — the brave General Lavarande fell. VI. First seiz- Far away from the two White Redoubts, but still Kamtchat- in ii sense closely joined with them by relations by the of interdependence, that work audaciously planted on 'the Mamelon' with which the genius of Tod- leben had long been shielding his Malakoff was now at last brought under challenge. Not to take the Kamtchatka Lunette by even so mighty an effort as Pelissier was determined to make, would be a disheartening calamity; but to win it might be winning a stepping-stone to the paramount stronghold, and — after a while — to Sebastopol. Few, if any, believed that the Work could be seized and held fast without incurring grave losses. 5.S0P.K. At half-past five o'clock in the evening, Gen- troopsha? oral Bosquet, on ground near the Lancaster Bosquet. 3 1 '.alt cry, which he had chosen as his post of ob- servation, assembled the Divisions of Camou and Brunet — the troops destined to attack the Lun- ette — and haranguing them regiment by regi- ment was answered by the cheers of the men.