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 152 NIGHT OF THE 17T1I OF JUNE. C HAP. VI. on which both had agreed, or lastly to persist in the course approved by the two commanders some hours before without suffering himself to be moved by the wild alteration since made; and therefore, whilst bitterly pained by his colleague's new and sudden resolve, he determined that the operations of the English on the morrow should be in conformity with Pelissier's altered design. Night of the 17th of June. Movements ofEDglish and French troops. These move- ments de- scried by the enemy. VII. Lord Raglan gave his orders accordingly ; and his troops before sunrise all reached the positions assigned them. The marches of Pelissier's troops did not all take effect in good time. The brigades under Faucheux and Monteynard, which he had sum- moned from his camps in the west, received their orders too late; and, when ready to move, the troops under General Brunet were obstructed by finding that the trenches through which they received instructions to pass had not yet been left vacated for them by General d'Autemarre's forces.* It was a beauteous midsummer night ; and the stars in the heavens disclosed these marches of troops to a vigilant garrison, enabling their great Engineer to infer the design of the besiegers in its general bearing, and even to divine in some measure their special plans of attack. Niel, p. 314.
 * The cause of this error — not now material — is shown by