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 RUSSIAN WORK CALLED 'THE QUABBIES.' 113 field, but we know that they must have been chap. huge.* ___! VII. The English attack was to open as soon as the French, towards their right, should carry the Work on the Mamelon. So, when from the Wbronzoff Ridge Lord Raglan — warmly admiring — saw Bosquet's troops make their first onset, and seize the Kamtchatka Lunette, he at once let our people begin their intended assault of 'the ' Quarries.' Since the night of the 19th of April, when 'Thu Egerton captured the 'lodgment' confronting the left of 'Gordon's Attack,' and bequeathed his honoured name to the conquest thenceforth called ' Egerton's Pit,' the enemy had enlarged and connected the other neighbouring 'lodg- ' mcnts' which still remained in his hands, and from that beginning at last had completed a system of field-work which covered the Cheat Redan by an outer belt of defences some 400 yards in advance. These iiekl-works, or ' counter- ' approaches,' as General Todleben called them, stretched across the whole Woronzofif Ridge in twofold lines of entrenchment; but the part of them destined to furnish the principal subject of strife was their main work thrown up on the that, to get at the number of those who fell in the strife connected with the enterprise against the Lunette no more 'h:in a small deduction can be made from the number — 5543 — which represents the French 'casualties.' VOL. IX. II
 * Because those who fell elsewhere were certainly few ; so