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90 PELlSSIElt AND LOKI) HAGLAN AGKEED. CHAPTER V. OPENING OF THE THIRD BOMBARDMENT. — VICTORIOUS ASSAULTS OF ALL THE COUNTER - APPROACHES BY FRENCH AND ENGLISH TROOPS. — CONCLUSION OF THE THIRD BOMBARDMENT. CHAP. V. Resolve of Pelissier and Lord Raglan to attack the counter-ap- proaches ; their con- cord The French and the English commanders had been meanwhile resolving in concert to attack all those counter -approaches that guarded the Karabelnaya. These included not only the White Uedoubts and the Kamtchatka Lunette, which had sprung, as it were, out of darkness to challenge and mock at the French in the months of February and March, but also the Work of the Quarries — directly opposed to the English — which had since been thrown up by the enemy in front of his Great Redan. The concord at this time established between Pelissier and Lord Raglan was not the result of agreement attained by any mere compromise. Each chief thought exactly alike on the questions then ripe for decision, and having worked out his conclusion at a separate time, had also apparent-