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 142 THE FOURTH BOMBARDMKNT. OH A P. VI. This was only the second of the principal changes that General PeTissier wrought within the ill-omened 'eight days.' Designed 1:1,1' em i'! on t be Tcheraaya. Main de- sign of the Allies the Kara- belnaya. Tlieir plan "fa pre- liminary bombard- ment. III. Pedissier's measures included a feint on the Tchernaya effected with troops of all arms — troops which likewise would be charged to fend off any onset in that quarter hazarded by the Russian Field Army. The command of this force was the one to which Bosquet found him- self shifted. The main purpose of the Allies, French and English, comprised only a set of attacks to be delivered by infantry on the 18th of June against the greater part of the works which defended the Karabelnaya. To open a way for these onslaughts, and to protract the enemy's anxiety in regard to his defences elsewhere, the day next before these attacks was to be occupied in bombarding — not simply the works of the Faubourg but — the whole south front of iSebastopol. The fourth liombai'd- iiM nt. IV. Accordingly at break of day on the 17th of June, the French and the English began to de- liver their fourth bombardment. Their fleets * (where fleets could act), and elsewhere far more Miranda.
 * At the cost of a precious life — that of young Lyons of the