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198 LORD RAGLAN. CHAP. VII. Others stricken. of them, wounded, some killed. Though inces- santly watchiug the combat from over the para- pet, Lord Raglan himself was not struck. The con- ditional measures. The conditions did not prove to be such that any attack on the salient of the Great Redan could at this time be usefully made; and, no change in this respect happening at a later hour, it resulted of course that the measure was not carried into effect. General Barnard's ulterior operations had al- ways been meant to depend on the fate of the attacks directed against the Redan. His troops therefore were stayed in the advanced position they had won on the right of the Woronzoff Gorge, and were afterwards duly withdrawn.* The bom- bardment DI-lll'l l"l by Lord Raglan ; Its effect. XIII. When the onsets of his infantry against the Redan had come at last to a close, Lord Raglan caused his siege-batteries to exert their full power against both the Redan and the Malakoff, thus not only making it certain that the enemy's glad sense of relief from attacks of foot- soldiers would be followed within some five minutes by the trial of suffering bombardment amid scenes of havoc and slaughter, but also tearing open the way for any renewed assault he might afterwards choose to deliver. This bombardment proved so effective that
 * General Barnard to Sir Richard England, 18th June 1855.