198 LORD RAGLAN.
CHAP.
VII.
Others
stricken.
of them, wounded, some killed. Though inces-
santly watchiug the combat from over the para-
pet, Lord Raglan himself was not struck.
The con-
ditional
measures.
The conditions did not prove to be such that
any attack on the salient of the Great Redan
could at this time be usefully made; and, no
change in this respect happening at a later hour,
it resulted of course that the measure was not
carried into effect.
General Barnard's ulterior operations had al-
ways been meant to depend on the fate of the
attacks directed against the Redan. His troops
therefore were stayed in the advanced position
they had won on the right of the Woronzoff
Gorge, and were afterwards duly withdrawn.*
The bom-
bardment
DI-lll'l l"l
by Lord
Raglan ;
Its effect.
XIII.
When the onsets of his infantry against the
Redan had come at last to a close, Lord Raglan
caused his siege-batteries to exert their full power
against both the Redan and the Malakoff, thus
not only making it certain that the enemy's
glad sense of relief from attacks of foot- soldiers
would be followed within some five minutes by
the trial of suffering bombardment amid scenes
of havoc and slaughter, but also tearing open the
way for any renewed assault he might afterwards
choose to deliver.
This bombardment proved so effective that
- General Barnard to Sir Richard England, 18th June 1855.
