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172 GENERAL CAMPBELL'S ATTACK. CHAP. Y1I. Interposi- tion of I lolODOl Tylden; resulting in a move towards the salient of the Redan. Intensity of t he Ore confronted by Tylden ; who was quickly si ruck down. Coarse taken by Gerald ' Graham. don (whom so often we have seen night anil day in the thick of the siege fights) came up im- patiently fretting at the check he had observed, and saying, ' What are you stopping for? On, 'men, on! forward!' he shouted, waving his sword over his head. Graham ran up to him and asked, if, the attack on the flank of the work being impracticable, he should lead his men on the salient. The Colonel said : — ' Any- ' where, so long as you get on,' and again he began to cheer on the men then moving towards the salient. If any conjoined band of men had come up alongside him, it must needs have en- countered a fate scarce short of what one calls massacre ; for, to use the eyes, any moment, was to see the ground ripped up and torn by missiles descending in swarms ; and so thick came the flight of the grape -shots that together whilst rushing, and hissing in storm through the air, they gave out mighty crashes of sound not often- times heard by mortals who have lived to speak of such trials. As might well be expected, Colonel Tylden was quickly struck down, and indeed so cruelly wounded, that he never again would be able to resume the valiant part he had taken in the siege of Sebastopol. First devoting some moments of care to the honoured chief thus lying wounded, Gerald Graham hurried after his men and drew up his ladders on ground he chose for the purpose. This he did by the aid of only the sailors and a few sappers; for of the- 120 soldiers who had