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The supporting force under this trial main- chap.
tained its advance until the remains of our troops L_
engaged near the Abattis were seen to be at last
falling back. The supports then began to retire,
but already they had suffered, and still were
suffering loss.
XII.
Of that fire from the Great Redan which Fire drawn
Colonel Yea's column provoked, no small part trenches;
found its way to our trenches occasioning losses
of men ; and especially it poured on the Mortar and espe-
Battery of the 3d Parallel, where Lord Eaglan spot where
Till- i mi i i Lord Raglan
had taken his stand, lnere, leaning over the was posted,
parapet in order to see all he could of the
English attack, and of the general tenor of the
French operations against the Malakoff and the
Gervais Battery, Lord Kaglan kept at his side
the commander of our Engineers (General Harry
Jones), but directed that all the rest of his staff His dire^-
and the orderlies with them should sit down, staff.
obtaining all the shelter that was possible, and
take care not to attract the enemy's attention by
looking over the parapet.
Yea's column had not long moved forward mscom-
when the general commanding our Engineers Engineer
. . . . „ _ ° . _ , ° . torn from
was torn from the side of Lord Kaglan by a his side,
grape - shot striking his forehead ; ( 2 ) and from
time to time afterwards, when officers and men
bringing messages or having other business in
hand came up from different parts of the field
and stood upright in the battery, they were, some
