The Sun.
London, England, 1855-09-27 00:00:00

"The following dispositions were to be made by each
of these attacking bodies :—To the left the division
Levaillant (2d of let corps); (brigade Couston: 9th bat-
talion of foot chasseurs, under Commandant Rogie ; 21st
of the line, Lieut.-Colonel Villaret ; 42d of the line,
Lieut.• Colonel de Mallet ; brigade Trochu : 46th of the
line, Lieut.-Colonel Le Banoeur ; 80th of the line,
Colonel Lateirade) charged with the attack of the Cen-
tral Bastion and of the lunettes placed in the most ad-
vanced parallels. To the right was the division d'Aute-
marre (brigade Niel • sth battalion of foot chasseurs,
Commandant Gamier; 19th of the line, Colonel Guig-
!lard ; 26th of the line, Colonel de Sorhiers ; brigade
Breton ; 39th of the line, Colonel Cornignan ; 74th of the
line, Colonel Guyot de Lespart, which was to follow on
the footsteps of the division Levaillant, and take pos-
session of the Flag•staff Battery and of the batteries
which were raised about it. The Sardinian brigade of
General Cialdini, placed beside the division d'Autemarre,
was to attack the right flank of the same bastion. In
fine, the division Bonet (4th of the let corps, General
' Lefevre • 10th foot chasseurs, Commandant Guiomard ;
18th of the line, Colonel Dantio ; 79th of the line, Colo-
nel Grenier ; d brigade, General de la Roquette ; 14th
of the line, Colonel de degrier ; 43d of the line, Colonel
Broutta), and the division Pate (3d of the let corps,
brigade Beuret ; 6th battalion of the foot chasseurs,
Commandant Fermier de la Prevulais ; 28th of the line,
Colonel Lartigues ; 98th of the line, Colonel Conseil
Dumesnil ; brigade Bazaine ; lst Regiment of the Fo-
reign Legion, Lieutenant-Colonel IVlartenot de Cordone ;
2d Regiment of the Foreign Legion, Colonel de Cho-
briereo, serving as a reserve to the division Levaillant.
In addition, and to guard against any eventualities that
might happen, I ordered from Karuiesh, and placed
under the orders of General de Sallee, the 30th and 35th
of the line, who were on the extreme left, and gave
strength on that side to our lines.

" Before Barabelnaia, as I have already stated, our
attack was to be made in three directions :—To the left,
on the Malakhoff and its supports ; to the right, on the
Little Redan of Careening Bay ; and on the centre, on
the curtain which united these works. The system of
the Malakhuff was evidently the mo 4 important point of
the fortress • its capture must involve the successive
ruin of the defences of the place, and I bad added to the
troops under General Bosquet all the infantry of the
Imperial Guard.
"The attack of the left on the Malakboff was confided
to General M'Mahon (Ist division of 2d corps), lst bri-
gade, Colonel Decaen ; let Zouaves, Colonel Colineau ;
and 7th of the line, Colonel Decaen ; 2d brigade, Gene-
ral Vinoy ; Ist batta:ion of foot cha,sseurs, Commandant
Gambier ; 20th of the line, Colonel Orianne ; 27th of
the line, Colonel Adam, which had also in reserve the
brigade Whimpfen (3d Zouaves, Colonel Polhbs ; 50th
of the line, Lieutenant-Colonel Nicolas ; and Algerian
Rifles, Colonel Rose), taken from the division Carrion,
and the two battalions of the Zouaves of the Guard,
Colonel Janain.

"The right attack on the Redan was confided to Ge-
neral Dulac (brigade St. Pol : 17th foot chasseurs, Com-
mandant de Feeassac ; 57th of the line, Colonel Dupuis,
85th, Colonel Javel ; 2d brigade, General Bisson ; 10th
of the line, Commandant de Lacontrie ; 61st of the line
Colonel de Taxis), having in reserve the brigade Marol-
les (15th of the line, Colonel Guerin ; 96th of the line,
Colonel Malherbe), of the division d'Autemarre, and the
battalion of foot chasseurs of the Guard, Colonel Cor-
nulier de Luciniere. General de Motterouge (brigade
of General Bourbaki : 4th foot chasseurs, Commandant
Clinchart ; 86th of the line, Colonel de Berthier ; 100th
of the line, Colonel Mathieu ; 2d brigade, Colonel Pi-
card ; 91st of the line, Col,,nel Kergueir), commanded
the attack of the centre in the middle of the curtain,
having in reserve the Voltigeurs (Colonels Montera and
Douay) of the Guard, under the direct orders of the
general of division of the Guard (Colonels Blanchard and
Dalton) Mellinet, having under him the Generals of Bri-
gade de Ponteves and de Failly.
"In order to place these troops, our trenches had
been divided in three places, of which each part ought to
contain in its advanced portion the whole of the division
of attack, and the reserves would find room as well in
the old trenches, as far as they were calculated to con-
tain, them, as in the ravines of Karabelnaia and the
Careening Bay. It was requisite, the better to deceive
the enemy, that the assembling of the troops should take
place without much di>turbance ; thus all the communi-
cations conducting to our places of arms had been pre-
served with great care, and everything that was likely to
attract observation was removed.

" To the left attacks, as well as to those of the right,
detachments of artillery and engineers, provided with
tools, were placed at the head of each column of attack.
The sappers of the engineers, with the auxiliaries of the
advanced guard of each attack, were to be ready to
place bridges which they had learned to manage, and the
materials for which had aiready been sent in advance of
the first line. The cannoniers were provided with all
that was necessary—hammers, &c.—to be ready to spike
or unspike the guns as the ease might Is, and to turn, if
possible, against the enemy those which they might
take. In addition, in the first battalion of each attack
a certain number of men were to be provided with short-
hand tools, with which they might open passages, fill up
ditches, turn traverses ; to accomplish, in a word, urgent
works that were so important at such a moment.
"Besides the reserves of the field batteries had been
prepared in a manner to enable them to be brought
promptly into action. To the left attack a field battery
was to be placed in a spot near the fortress, with horses
ready, and its cannoniers provided with harness ready to
carry them off in case of necessity ; two other batteries
(of the let division) were to be ready at Clocheton ; and
a fourth was to be carried to the extreme left of the
Lazaretto. To the right attacks a reserve of 24 field-
pieces were to be placed—viz,, 12 guns of the Lancaster
old battery, and 12 to guard the Redoubt Victoria.