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 DEFINITIVE CONQUEST OF 'THE QUARRIES.' 129 CHAP. viii. _!• In killed, wounded, and missing, the Eussians Killed, lost 5000 ; * the French 5500 ; t the English ^miLing. nearly 700, of whom no less than 4^ were officers.:}: The French took from the enemy 73 pieces of spoils ordnance, of which all except six were of heavy calibre.§ IX. The Allies soon reversed, and turned to their The Allies . „, on their own use, the works they had wrested from the advanced front. enemy ; so that what had been the two White Re- doubts, the Kamtchatka Lunette, and the counter- approach called the ' Quarries,' all powerfully de- fending Sebastopol, now marked the front newly advanced from which the Allies would spring out to make their attack on the fortress. By establishing batteries on the new positions Change ^ ° .... . experienced thus won, the Allies pressed their siege with a bytheg-ir- ■*■ rison and in- stringency greatly increased ; and one result seem- habitants, ingly was that thenceforth there remained but one quarter in which the inhabitants or the men of the garrison could loiter or pass without risk. || f More exactly 5443. Niel, p. 301. X More exactly 671, being the number shown in Journal of Royal Engineers, when corrected by the addition of two casu- alties omitted by mistake in the Return. § Niel, p. 298. VOL. IX. *
 * Todleben, vol. ii. p. 333.
 * Ernshcff.