RUSSIAN WORK CALLED 'THE QUABBIES.' 113 field, but we know that they must have been chap. huge.* ___! VII. The English attack was to open as soon as the French, towards their right, should carry the Work on the Mamelon. So, when from the Wbronzoff Ridge Lord Raglan — warmly admiring — saw Bosquet's troops make their first onset, and seize the Kamtchatka Lunette, he at once let our people begin their intended assault of 'the ' Quarries.' Since the night of the 19th of April, when 'Thu Egerton captured the 'lodgment' confronting the left of 'Gordon's Attack,' and bequeathed his honoured name to the conquest thenceforth called ' Egerton's Pit,' the enemy had enlarged and connected the other neighbouring 'lodg- ' mcnts' which still remained in his hands, and from that beginning at last had completed a system of field-work which covered the Cheat Redan by an outer belt of defences some 400 yards in advance. These iiekl-works, or ' counter- ' approaches,' as General Todleben called them, stretched across the whole Woronzofif Ridge in twofold lines of entrenchment; but the part of them destined to furnish the principal subject of strife was their main work thrown up on the
- Because those who fell elsewhere were certainly few ; so
that, to get at the number of those who fell in the strife connected with the enterprise against the Lunette no more 'h:in a small deduction can be made from the number — 5543 — which represents the French 'casualties.' VOL. IX. II
