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 116 THE ENGLISH CARRYING 'THE QUARRIES.' CHAP, case, for instance', with the working-party of the ! 55th Regiment, 1G0 strong) to act as combatants, and besides, after nightfall to be aided by the G2d Regiment, as also, if the need should occur, by other troops within reach. Colonel Robert Campbell of the 90th Regiment commanded the stormers, and led in person that half of them (200 strong) which was furnished by the Light Division; whilst the other half, fur- nished by the 2d Division, was led by Major James Armstrong of the 40th. Lord Raglan determined that the assault should be delivered exclusively against the flanks of the Work which our people had surnamed ' the Quar- 'ries'; and this decision proved fortunate; for in the quarters thus marked for attack, the ground had not, as elsewhere, been charged with any ex- plosive machines. Our artillery had been searching the Work of 'the Quarries' with a powerful fire; but all at Advanced" once became silent. Then the two chosen bodies our storm-. . ., . . . n mgparties. of stormers, led, on one Hank, by their commander Colonel Campbell of the 90th in person, on the other, by Major Armstrong of the 49th, advanced on the enemy's trenches without, it seems, tiring a Their snz- shot, and — unchecked by Ditch, or by parapet, or Work. by what General Todleben says was the strenuous resistance of the Russian soldiery — pushed for- ward so resolutely that in spite of their scanty numbers they swiftly broke into the Work. They thus gave the warrant of successful experience to that wise reliance on the quality of his soldiers