eyre's victorious attack. 205 Moved, he says, by the fact that d'Autemarre chap. was without support ou either flank, Pelissier — at least for the day — abandoned all hope of breaking Abandon through the defences, and at seven o'clock in the thestru ss le - morning, or perhaps somewhat later, he withdrew his troops from the front.* The retrograde move- ment was made without being gravely molested by troops sent out in pursuit. XVII. The movement on the Tchernaya resulted in Themove- t ii ment on no operations that need, as I think, be recorded, the Tcher- naya. XVIII. The only onset this day that ended victoriously The attack was the one undertaken against ground skirting General Evre Sebastopol on the eastern side of the town, and entrusted to General Eyre with a single brigade that numbered some 2000 men. The general was to descend the ravine that took its name from the Piquet House there held by the French, to attack the line of rifle-pits established below, and finally to endeavour to occupy some ground in advance whence ulterior operations might be advantage- ously effected, and this more especially if the great attacks to be made in other parts of the
- The Russians assign 7 o'clock as the time, and are probably-
near the truth, but Pelissier puts the time later, that is, at 8.30 a.m. He, however, perhaps referred to the time when his people regained the trenches.
