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-
