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GENERAL SIMPSON'S DESPATCH

OP THE
FALL OF SEBASTOPOL.

SEBASTOPOL, SEPTFMBEIL 9.

My Lord,-1 had the honour to apprize your
Lordship in my despatch of the sth instant, that
the Engineer and Artillery Officers of the Allied
Armies had laid before General Pelissier and
myself a report recommending that the assault
should take place on the Bth instant, after a
heavy fire had been . kept up for three days.
This arrangement I agreed to, and I have to
congratulate your lordship on the glorious results
of the attack of yesterday, which has ended in
the possession of the town, dockyards, and
public buildings, and destruction of the last ships
of the Russian fleet in the Black Sea. Three
steamers alone remain, and the speedy capture
or sinking of these must, speedily follow. It
was arranged that at twelve o'clock in the day
the French columns of assault were to leave
their trenches, and take possession of the Mal-
akhoff and adjacent works. After their success
had been assured, and they were fairly estab-
lished, the Redau was to be assaulted by the
English ; the Bastion, Central, and Quarantine
Forts, on the left, were simultaneously to be
attacked by the French. At the hour appointed
our Allies quitted their trenches, entered and
carried the apparently impregnable defences of
the Malakhoff with that impetuous valour which
characterises the French attack ; and, having
once obtained possession, they were never dis-
lodged. The tricolour planted on the parapet
was the signal for our troops to advance. The
arrangements for the attack I entrusted to
Lieut.-Gen. Sir William Codrington, who car-
ried out the details in concert with Lieut.-Gen.
Markham. I determined that the Second and
Light Divisions should have the honour of the
assault, from the circumstances of their having
l
defended the batteries and approaches ofthe
Redan for so many months, and from the in-
timate knowledge they possessed of the' ground.
The fire of our artillery having made as much
of a breach as possible in the salient of the
Redan, I decided that the columns of assault
should be directed against that part, as being
less exposed to the.leavy flanking fire by which
this work is protkted. _

It was arranged between Sir William Cod-
rington and Lieut.-General Ma!kham that the
assaulting column of 1000 men should be
formed by equal numbers of these two divisions,
the columns of the Light Division to lead, that
2nd to follow. They left the trenches

it the preconcerted signal, and moved across the
;round, preceded by a covering puny of 200 Luca
Ind a ladder party of 320. On arriving at the

crest of the ditch, and the ladders placed, the
men immediately stormed the parapet of the
Redan, and penetrated into the salient angle. A
most determined and bloody contest was here
maintained for nearly an hour, and, although
supported to the utmost, and the greatest bra-
very displayed, it was found impossible to
maintain the position.

Your lordship will perceive, by the long and
I lists of casualties, with what gallantry and
f-devotion the officers so nobly placed them-
ves at the head of their men during this

sanguinary conflict.
I feel myself unable to express in adequate
terms the sense I entertain of the conduct and
;allantry exhibited by the troops, though their
ievotion was not rewarded by the success that

they well merited ; but to no one are my thanks
more justly due than to Cul. Windham, who
gallantly headed his column of attack, and was

fortunate in entering, and remainit

troops during th

Were,

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unable to organise a second assault,
intended to make with the Highlander

npbell, who had hi-

rye, to be supported b,

third division under

I with them to renew the

bland I

rations endured by many of the regiments
during a long winter campaign aro too well
known for me to comment upon. They were

borne both by officers and men with a pat
and unmurmuring endurance worthy o

highest praise, and which gained them tt

applaus

and sympathy of their country

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The Naval Biigade, under the command of in th
Captain the Hon. Henry Keppel, aided by Capt. stick;
Moorsom, and many gallant officers and seamen horiz

who have served their guns from the cowmen

ment of the siege, merit my warmE

The prompt, hearty, efficacious
of her Majesty's Navy, commanded by R
miral Sire lmund Lyoi
Sir Houston Stewart, has contribu
terially to the success of our unde
here perhaps I may be permitted to
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ported by my ever tole lamented p
in this command, I am sure that it vi

been one of his most pleasin2
the deep sense which I knoN
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nce tha

I cannot sufficiently express my
of the conduct of the Royal Engi
Lieutenant-General Sir Harry Joni
conducted the siege operations from the 1

pprobation

ning of this year. For some time I
been suffering on a bed of sicknes
eventful hour of the assault would n

him to remain absent ; he was conv
litter into the trenches to witness the e
of this arduous undertaking.

I entrust this despatch to the care <
Major the Hon. Leicester Curzon, will
Assistant Military Secretary to my no

this war, and who will be able to giv(
lordship more minute details than the limi
despatch will allow.—l have, &c.,
JAMES SIM PSON,

General C

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