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LORD RAGLAN. 197 The supporting force under this trial main- chap. tained its advance until the remains of our troops L_ engaged near the Abattis were seen to be at last falling back. The supports then began to retire, but already they had suffered, and still were suffering loss. XII. Of that fire from the Great Redan which Fire drawn Colonel Yea's column provoked, no small part trenches; found its way to our trenches occasioning losses of men ; and especially it poured on the Mortar and espe- Battery of the 3d Parallel, where Lord Eaglan spot where Till- i mi i i Lord Raglan had taken his stand, lnere, leaning over the was posted, parapet in order to see all he could of the English attack, and of the general tenor of the French operations against the Malakoff and the Gervais Battery, Lord Kaglan kept at his side the commander of our Engineers (General Harry Jones), but directed that all the rest of his staff His dire^- and the orderlies with them should sit down, staff. obtaining all the shelter that was possible, and take care not to attract the enemy's attention by looking over the parapet. Yea's column had not long moved forward mscom- when the general commanding our Engineers Engineer . . . . „ _ ° . _, ° . torn from was torn from the side of Lord Kaglan by a his side, grape - shot striking his forehead ; ( 2 ) and from time to time afterwards, when officers and men bringing messages or having other business in hand came up from different parts of the field and stood upright in the battery, they were, some