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eyre's VICTOR V. 215 temarre; but before they came into action, lie chap. ordered a retreat, and put an end to the conflict. ' It would seem that that last step, however, was a step rightly taken ; for — because not supported in time by the accession of any fresh troops — the occupation of a part of the fortress by the brave Engineers and the Chasseurs had come at last to an end. XXII. Undertaken to meet a contingency that did costliness not occur, and involving a grave loss of men, the Eyre's attack we saw General Eyre drive through the proportion _. . ,. , . i> n -i i i to the ad- Garden - wall skirts ot bebastopol must be vantages gained. deemed on the whole to have ended in a dearly bought victory, and a dearly bought conquest of ground.