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'270 SIEGE OPERATIONS. The French sapping CHAPTER XI. CONTINUING SIEGE OPERATIONS. chap. From the engagement of the 18th of June to the close of the following ten days (when this narra- tive coincs to end), the Allies and the Eussians Sp°tothe ely alike went on with their works of — respectively the r Kara. — s i e g e ant 'l defence, continuing much as before e aya; ^ re p a ^ t0 improve, to augment their respective batteries ; but soon, the toils of the French began to take such a shape as to disclose Pelissier's in- tention of sapping up more and more closely to the enemy's ramparts in the Karabelnaya, whilst and pre- also showing him minded to establish new bat- teries on ground commanding the Eoadstead, and new bat- , , ° , i. ri, s on so prevent the enemv s war- vessels from renewing ground . ° ° command- attacks of the kind we saw made on Mayran's ingthe ... "i- Division. The English Amongst the toils of the English was that of ingtneir fastening on part of the ground we saw won by [round General Eyre on the 18th of June; and they did uaptured . . ...... , . . i>>- Eyre; this with skill, not choosing tor instance to oc- cupy the graveyard comprised in his conquest, but maintaining their control of the ground by means of troops so entrenched near, as to be able