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CHAP. V. 1"0 CONTINUANCE OF THIRD BOMBARDMENT. Continu- ance of the Thiid Bom- bardment ; the losses ,i ed The lire of siege-guns we saw open on the after- noon of the 6th was continued on the morrow, and during the three following days. This artil- lery effort was called the Third Bombardment, and it inflicted on the Kussians a loss of 3507 men, the. Allies, it seems, only losing under the fire of the responding batteries 150 each day.*

  • Todleben, vol. ii. pp. 339, 340. Wo have already seen {ante,

vol. viii. p. 137) why the Russians submitted to grea.t sacrilices whilst under bombardment.