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184 GENERAL CAMPBELL'S ATTACK. chap, was seemingly no ground for hoping that the ! — column entrusted to Campbell would ever tra- troopsfrom x   Liu: space that divided the Quarries from fleas. "^ " the counterscarp of the Great Redan without un- dergoing such slaughter as must either destroy the force utterly, or at all events render it powerless — at the end of the long bloody march — to under- take an assault ; and it was fortunate for our people that accidents arrested the course of the enterprise in so early a stage, as to save them from the consequences of becoming more deeply committed. io86€8. There is no such dissection of the Returns as would enable one to give the numbers of the sailors and Royal Engineers who fell whilst mak- ing this effort against the western Hank of the Redan; but in killed, wounded, and missing, that Division (the 4th) which had furnished all the rest of the strength lost 193 altogether, of whom 16 were ollicers, including one major-general, that is, as we saw, Sir John Campbell. X. An in.- Amongst those of the Royal Engineers who patient. . lieutenant found themselves kept in reserve near this part of the Held there was one young lieutenant who painfully, bitterly chafed at what he thought the hard lot of being withheld from the action ; and, when hearing that — at least for a time — the vain onset we witnessed had ceased, he not only as- of Sappers;