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200 PELISSIER AND LORD RAGLAN. CHAP. VII. Lord Rag- lan and Pelissier in common) na- tion. The two chiefs to- gether. Messages from d'Aute- marre. gorge. Communications accordingly passed be- tween the two commanders, and at first were effected by message ; but afterwards Lord Raglan determined to confer with his colleague in person He accordingly rode off with his staff to the Lan- caster Battery, where Pelissier had established himself, and there, standing apart, the two chiefs conversed for some time. They apparently de- termined at first that, Pelissier undertaking to support and drive home General d'Autemarre's onslaught, Lord Raglan on his part should renew his endeavour to carry the Great Redan ; but it seems that the conference between the two chiefs was from time to time interrupted by message after message brought in from General d'Aute- marre, and that the latest of those communica- tions determined Pelissier's course. Continued operations of d'Aute- marre's troops. XV. When last we observed the operations of General dAutemarre's troops, the battalion of the 5th Chasseurs at one point, and the little body of some 80 Engineers at another, were, each of them, holding what each had daringly seized when breaking in at two places through the enemy's lines of defence ; but, on the other hand, although striving hard to reinforce their victorious comrades, the main body of General d'Autemarre's Division had as yet been striving in vain. This balanced condition of things had a length-