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    aeneraliBE 3 Mi 3 » iEB » s plan was to storm the wtble ] &e » f > om the rigjit of the Malakhoff whereit abuts , the ravine , to the Careening Bay , with , three divisions , pressing forward simultaneously . General Iatban . was instructed to carry the works on the left of the Malakoflv whRe General Bbtt . net turned the left of that formidable entrenchment , and General d'Autbmabke manoeuvred so as to carry the work by entering ; on its right next to the Bedan . Lord Raglan was left at

    liberty to assail the Redan at a fitting moment and complete the conquest . Sir Geoege Bbown was entrusted with this task , while General Baenaeb was sent down the Woronzoff Road , and General Eyre down the south ravine to make demonstrations there in conjunction with the French , and take any advantage he could ., But one accident disconcerted all the arrangements . It was agreed that three rockets should be the

    from the Lancaster battery signal for the assault . But to his surprise , General Pelissier saw the action begun on the extreme right when he was above half a mile from his post of observation . The consequences were terrible . By some mischance General Maybatst mistook a blazing shell for the signal , and his men rushed forward obedient to the command of their chief . Consequently he was engaged alone , under the concentrated fire of the Russian batteries .

    General Bbttnet , not yet quite prepared , was forced to go forward in support , and of course came in turn under the withering blasts of shot that screamed through the ranks of our allies . Lastly , D'Atttemabbe , unable to understand what the far off divisions were about , hurled forward . his men when the signalrockets flew aloft . He pressed on and entered the Russian works , despite the cannon , and the musketry of the enemy , and for a moment

    the eagles were planted m the hostile lines . But the day was lost . Lord Raglan , seeing how badly matters went , felt bound to draw off some of the fire . The men of the Light and Fourth Divisionsjrushed headlong to the attack , got into disorder under the heaviest fire Lord Raglan ever witnessed ; their leaders fell , they could not stand the iron storm , and they sullenly fell back frustrated for the first time before the enemy . Meanwhile General Eybe had carried the Russian

    works in the South Ravine , and the 18 th and the 9 th had actually penetrated into the suburb of the town , and established themselves under the wall of the Garden Battery , exposed to a severe fire . Had the attack on the right succeeded , these men would have secured the victory ; as it failed , they were prisoners all day , and they retired at night . From these details the reader will see , first that the attack primarily failed , because it ¦ wa s a succession of waves instead of one

    mighty surge . The whole strength of the enemy , instead of being broken and divided , bore upon the different points in succession . Secondly , it was a battle of men against guns —always a losing game—the guns again being powerfully aided by an incessant roll of musketry from an army covered by their lines . Thirdly , he will seo that there are

    roads into the eastern face of Sebastopol ; for General Eybe found out one , and General D'Autemabbe another . It is also remarkable that the steamers in the harbour , which it was stated had been compelled to . keep out of range , took pnrt in , and materially aided the defence . ^ Nevertheless , the assault was nearly a success , and is an earnest of victory in the next endeavour .

    The Tchernaya . —It is satisfactory to find that an advance was made across the Tchor . naya to the north-oast by the Turks and Sardinians on the 18 th and 19 th of June-Passing the river above and below

    Tchorgoun , the Turks taking the right and the Sardinians , the left , they pressed on as tar as Kduteka , an ^ bivouacked , tliere-for the night : The next , day , moving , further up the . hills , they occupied' TJpu an # : Ozembasb , ana came in sight of the pass of Aitodor . This the Russians held , as it is the key of the road to Bakstchi-Serai , turning , the ridge m front or Mackenzie ' s Farm , and debouching by Albat , in the valley of the Upper Belbek , in the rear of the supposed Russian position at the assauic

    Korales . It is probable that had . on the 18 th been successful , a general advance would have been made along the whole line , the Turks and Sardinians turning the ridge , while the French attacked it in front , and strove to carry the Russian position above Inkerman . But the assault failed , and the Turks and Sardinians fell back nearer to Tchorgoun .

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    THE DEBT TO RAGLAN . Loed Raglan has departed , leaving the country his debtor . It is a painful reflection for any man who , loving his country , takes its honour to heart . If a man dies in debt , his friends can make good his forfeit , or his debtors can forgive him . His good deeds can be set off against his default ; and at the worst there is no great harm . done . But if a man dies with his country in debt to him , tHere is only one way in which the country

    can acquit itself . It is no paltry pittance to the survivors that can satisfy the claims ; still less when the patriot has , like Raglan , sacrificed himself in the service of his country , and while in the very act of making the sacrifice , has sustained the hardest consequence by being made the butt of misrepresentation and obloquy . It is , then , a double debt . While

    ke lived his wages were ingratitude , and now that he is dead we have * to give him his reward , and to make good that which was unjustly niched from him . There is no more painful spectacle than that which we discern , when we look back and survey Lord Raglan ' s career in the Crimea . Nay , we cannot quite say so much ; for indeed he did witness some scenes that

    must have done his heart good . For there are many things worse than the most terrible misfortune that can possibly befal the good : there is the fate of those who , being selfish or base , have poisoned the very sources of their own faith . Raglan was none of these ; and amid all the things which he had to en / Jure , there was always something to sustain him in his own generosity , his calmness , and the simplicity of his good faith . It is reported of him that , when he read the coarse censure which was

    heaped upon him , he did not ascribe malice to those who judged him even unjustly . Still the spectacle is most melancholy , of a good man treated like a bad man ; of a successful general made to endure the actual results of ill success . For in whatever stage of the conflict we view him , it is the same . If he is riding through the camp leisurely and unostentatiously , in order to ascertain how the men bear themselves under their trials , the unostentatious character of his attendance

    originates the report that he is never seon ; and the bad management , which was organised "by an incompetent department , is laid at his door , at the very time when ho is eking out the stinted means of the empire from the munificence of his own pocket . Ho remonstrates , he alleviates , and he is pointed at as the prime author of the sufferings ho witnesses and cannot help . We soo "him reading the despatches winch ordered him to undertake the expedition , and obeying with the fidelity of a soldier , though ho &nw boforo himself and his army the destiny that ho droadod for his men but braved for hiniBolf .

    We see Mm , while thus enduring - the cone aiienee of the eotrrse against which he renio strated , reading ; the journals and the speech in Parliament , making : him the instigator the calamity ; but while reading those thing still faithfully pursuing his duty . Age may e feeble him , but he stftl goes forward . We s him readingthe spoken and written obloquy criticism in Parliament and in the press ; \ see him also reading the silence of Mimstei He accepted a divided command , but stvo

    to prevent the division of the command frc appearing in the results or in his own conduc and we see him reading those letters from t reckless St . Abnatjd , who called the Engli general " slow , " because he possessed t temperament which prevailed at Waterlo . from the fussy and vacillating Canroeeb ever anxious to be m the right , nev certain of being so ; from the impetuo

    and merciless Pelissieb , to whom war a razzia rather than an art . We see tl companion of Wellington consenting forego his own studied conviction , to accej the half of Pelissler ' s defeat . We see hi viewing from his station the carnage that 1 had foretold , —shuddering at it , not becau : he had dreaded danger , but because he r volted from the cruel waste of brave liv . without result . We see him , nevertheles

    sacrificing thousands of his countrymen a foreknown doom , rather than draw eve a doubt upon their honour—the most giga tic sacrifice perhaps which any single mr ever undertook . We see him recalling h troops from the u seless slaughter , and tui sickening from a baffled field , sinking undi the long strain of thwarted counsels , ai still resisting the fiend of death , thoug haunted on his mortal pillow by reproacb which others had earned for him ; and at las unable to continue the struggle longer , lyir down to find repose alone in the etern ;

    sleep . Even in the long torture of that twelvi month's trial , Raglan had his stay and h consolation . Duty was his law , and to obi it was to know that he had not fallen froi his own standard . If to the chivalrous ii stincts of the soldier a career of victory wi denied—a victory given only in hasty snatche —a disappointment and not a foretaste , —1 had at least his fill of the spirit of chivah which flowed through all the hearts aroiui

    him . He found the English soldier one more his companion on the field of battl rising above his old character , and yet diu playing the same generous qualities that tt rudest Englishman displays . The sacrific as he made it , was far from being unr deemed ; the sacrifice , as the country receive it , was indeed dishonestly taken . It is as beai tiful to receive as to make a sacrifice , whe the nature of the sacrifice , and the feeliu

    with which it is rendered , are perfect , understood . A gift from the generous 1 the generous is reciprocal . But when sacrifice is lightly taken , because the hea ; that receives cannot rise to the generosit that gives , then indeed it is desecrated by heartless meanness . The country * nov ( showed , through the Ministers who exist b its sufferance , that it was worthy to recci \ the sacrifice that Raglan made .

    To the departed Cliief is due a moi solemn compensation . It is not acquitted i the shilling a day extra to the men , or in th pensions to tliroo of Lord Raglan ' s familj Thorc is a debt still to pay for tho blood c our countrymen ; for tho obloquy which wa unjustly cast upon RaqjuAN whore otbora hiv deserved it ; for the ungenerous silence whic loft him to bear the burden of tho silcul

    And there in a cornponsatioxi which can alway bo made to a generous man : it is to crowj tho endeavours which ho loft uncompleted witi

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  • Leader (1850-1860), July 7, 1855, page 646, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2098/page/10/