posed to a terrible fire of grape from the flanks; and officers and men fell so thickly that the whole of this space was covered with the dead and wounded. " Colonel Unett, of the 19th, was badly wounded befoi*e he reached the abattis; Brigadier Shirley, in command of the column, was temporarily blinded by the dust and earth knocked into his face by a shot, and was forced to leave the field, as was also Brigadier Van Straubenzee, in consequence of a contusion he received in the face. Colonel Handcock fell mortally wounded in the head by a bullet, and never spoke again. Captain Hammond fell dead. Major Welsford was killed on the spot, in the act of mounting a ladder to get into one of the embrasures, by a round shot which carried off his head. Captain Grove was severely wounded, and many officers and men were hit and fell." * In spite of this appalling loss, which, with the exception of the death of Colonel Handcock, occurred outside the Redan, our small columns, already terribly thinned, pressed on unflinchingly to the work, which they scaled at its salient, some by means of ladders, but the majority over the debris knocked down by the previous artillery fire. For a moment the Russians retired, but it was only to rally and reform behind the innumerable traverses, whence they kept up a withering fire on the English, or to return, reinforced by fresh masses of troops, to the unequal struggle. The Second Division column, which entered the Redan almost at the same moment as that of the Light, fared no better; and the supports which came up were not suflScient to fill the gaps which every moment made among the men already in the work.
The nature of this species of fortification, which is a triangle open at the base, gave peculiar scope for the entrance and deployment of reinforcements in any number, while the assailants, crowded together at the apex of the triangle, were exposed to a concentrated fire from every other portion of the work, which was also completely commanded in rear by some of the guns of the Barrack Battery. Against such odds no skill and no courage could ultimately prevail; but against them for two long hours the English maintained their dearly-won position with unparalleled tenacity and determination. By this time nearly all the ammunition had been spent, the reinforcements already sent were used up, the destructive fire maintained by the enemy rendered the advance of any further relieving force impossible; and, threatened with utter annihilation by the everincreasing stream of the Russian reserves, the few survivors of the attacking force at last quitted the Redan, and through an undiminished fire of grape, canister, and musketry, returned, panting, bleeding, and exhausted, * Letter of Times' Correspondent.