184 GENERAL CAMPBELL'S ATTACK.
chap, was seemingly no ground for hoping that the
! — column entrusted to Campbell would ever tra-
troopsfrom x Liu: space that divided the Quarries from
fleas. "^ " the counterscarp of the Great Redan without un-
dergoing such slaughter as must either destroy the
force utterly, or at all events render it powerless
— at the end of the long bloody march — to under-
take an assault ; and it was fortunate for our
people that accidents arrested the course of the
enterprise in so early a stage, as to save them
from the consequences of becoming more deeply
committed.
io86€8. There is no such dissection of the Returns as
would enable one to give the numbers of the
sailors and Royal Engineers who fell whilst mak-
ing this effort against the western Hank of the
Redan; but in killed, wounded, and missing, that
Division (the 4th) which had furnished all the
rest of the strength lost 193 altogether, of whom
16 were ollicers, including one major-general, that
is, as we saw, Sir John Campbell.
X.
An in.- Amongst those of the Royal Engineers who
patient . .
lieutenant found themselves kept in reserve near this part
of the Held there was one young lieutenant who
painfully, bitterly chafed at what he thought the
hard lot of being withheld from the action ; and,
when hearing that — at least for a time — the vain
onset we witnessed had ceased, he not only as-
of Sappers;
