VARIOUS MOVEMENTS AND CHANGES. 39 The greater of these was the one — here called chap. the Artilleur Battery* — which (after first opening . approaches on ground near the site they designed for itt) the French began to construct on a western spur of Mount Inkerman ; the other one — the King Battery — found a place in the second parallel of Gordon's Attack, and fronted towards the north.! It was constructed in the main by French soldiery ; and the sight of those troops briskly, steadily, ably performing their allotted task, caused our people to admire, caused them even indeed to record the efficient, the orderly way in which their allies did the work.( 16 ) XI. In the course of the long winter period which various i i • i ii t movements this chapter spans, there occurred, besides all 1 and have told, and much more that I leave unrecorded, the following movements and changes : — "When towards the close of November a French on the part officer, M. Saint Laurent (a chief of battalion), sians: taking with him a few engineers, supported by
- An aggregate appellation comprising what were more
strictly called the 'No. 1,' and the 'No. 2.' The battery, destined from the first for fifteen heavy guns, received after- wards more, and was armed by our people. It was constructed by the Ficnch Artillery. + Niel, pp. 141, 150. X This battery — strictly called ' No. 9 ' — was armed by our people with eight guns. In calling the parallel which received it the 2d, ' Parallel,' I follow the old nomenclature, though, in consequence of new siege-works taking ground in its rear, the authorities afterwards promoted it to the rank of a 3d Parallel.
