The Sun.
London, England, 1855-09-26 00:00:00

" GENERAL AFTER-ORDER.

"Head-quarterA, Sept. 9.
The Commander of the Forces congratulates the army
on the result of the attack of yesterday.
"The brilliant aseault and occupation of the Mala-
khoff by our gallant allies obliged the enemy to aban-
don the works they have so long held with such bravery
and determination.

" The Gimmander of the Forces returns his thanks to
the General Officers and officers and men of the Second
and Light Divisions, who advanced and attacked with
such gallantry the works of the Redan. He regrets, from
the formidable nature of the flanking defences, that their
devotion did not meet with that immediate success which
it so well merited.

"He condoles and deeply sympathises with the many
brave officers, non-commissioned officers, and men who
are now suffering from the wounds they received in the
course of their noble exertions of yesterday.
" He deeply deplores the death of the many gallant
officers and men who have fallen in the final struggle cf
this long and memorable siege.
"Their loss will be severely felt and their names long
remembered in this army and by the British nation.
"General Simpson avails himself of this opportunity
to congratulate and convey her warmest thanks to the
general officers, and soldiers of the several divi-ions. to
the Royal Engineers and Artillery, for their cheerful
endurance and almost unparalleled hardships and suffer-
ings. and for the unflinching co-irage and determination
which on so many trying occasions they have evinced.
"It is with equal satisfaction that the Commander of
the Forces thanks the officers and men of the Naval
Brigade for the long and uniform course of valuable ser-
vice rendered by them from the commencement of the
siege.

"137 order,
H. W. BARNARD, Chief of the Staff. i
It is difficult, as I have ociasion to observe on
similar occasions, to give with any pretensions-to
accuracy the details of a battle, but it becomes
almost impossible to attain correctness in describing
such an affair as the assault on the Redan under
the peculiar circumstances which attended it.
In addition to the smoke of battle there
were flying clouds of dust mingled with sand,
which blew right into the faces of the men and
swep the hills in their rear, which were crowded
with the spectators, or those who tried to be so,
and the irregularity of the ground offered other im-
pediments to their view ; but greater than all these
obstacles was this, that no one could from any con-
ceivable position in front see what was going on
inside the Redan, which seemed to engulf our
soldiers within its huge dun-coloured and ragged
parapets, only to vomit them forth again in di-
minished numbers. It was all along but too plain
to understand what was taking place within from
the external aspect of that ill-fated work, the slopes
of which have astonished the world with the sight
of British troops in flight twice in two successive
attacks on its formidable defences. The Redan has
cost us more lives than the capture of Badajoz, not
to speak of those who have fallen in the trenches
and approaches to it ; and, although the enemy
evacuated it, we can scarcely claim the credit of
having caused them such lo4s that they retired
owing to their dread of a renewed assault. On the
contrary, we must, in fairness, admit that the
Russians maintained their grip of the place till the
French were fairly established in the Malakhoff,
and the key of the position was torn from their
grasp. They might, indeed, have remained in the
place longer than they did, as the French were
scarcely in a condition to molest them from the
Malakhoff with artillery, and could not be permitted
to interfere with our attack had they been able to
send reinforcements to us ; but the Russian general
is a man of too much genius and experience as a
soldier to lose men in defending. an untenable posi-
tion, and his retreat was effected with masterly
skill and with perfect ease in the face of a vic-
torious enemy. Covering his rear by the flames of
the burning city and by tremendous explosions,
which spoke in tones of portentous warning to
those who might have wished to cut off his re-
treat, he led his battalions in narrow files acroys
a deep arm of the sea, commanded by our

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en:4sec',
paraded them in our sight as they
and carried of all his most useful stores an
munitions of war. He left us few trophies a,nir
many bitter memories. He sank his ships and h,le
up his forts without molestation, save some
shot,paitrY
efforts to break down the bridge by cannon
or to shell the troops as they marched over.
sure, and when every man was across, and not
tiff
steamers towed his boats across at their lei-
His
float off
then , g
the Russians bean to dislocate and
the portions of their bridge and to pull it over
the north side.
SEPT 10.
-
The town is still hurninc, and in ruins. It 'So--
possession of the French. The following order h
been issued on the subject—" five officers and seve-
ral men injured by explosions to-day."
TUESDAY MORNOV, 1 •31. _
For the last hour an exceedingly violent stortaw
has been raging over the camp. The wind is r°,
the southward and eastward, and blows with stlc'
fury as to make the hut in which I am Writing
rock to and fro and to fill it with fine dust, white
flies in through' every crevice. The Russians an,
very busy with their s;gnals over the Tcherualre
The fires in Sebastopol, fanned by the wind, ,aity
spreading fast, and the glare of the burning,:',he
illuminates the whole arch of the sky tower
north-west.
north-west.
2 o'CLoog •18
The storm has increased in strength, and raallitnes
beginning to fall heavily. Th e most d mila up
of lightning shoot over the plateau a lighv
,e
the camp for an instant, the peals of thunder aree'd.
short. and startling as to resemble, while far eleeuas
ins in noise, rain ,_„s,
the report of cannon.
somewhat lessene I the intensity of the fire at Seeilg
topol, but its flames and those of the lighnitpbern
seem at times to contend for the masterf., and
is, indeed, a great battle raging in the sklesn'de.
its thunder mocks to scorn our heaviest cannon
This supply of water will be very seasonable °been
camp, where that article of consumption has
for
a long time scanty and dirty.
4.15
rd
In the whole course of my life I never hes Or
or
saw anything like the deluge of rain which istslioe
falling over this portion of the camp. it us'it is
the roof with a noise like that of a catered' ; "ad
a veritable water spout. The wind is shiftingin-g is
changing all round the compass. The ligh,tn,,7for
fainter, and the gusts less violent. Sometr-bi
a minute there is a profound calm ; again 't °
a hurricane.
4.20 A•3fict
Had it lasted
The waterspout has passed away.
the cal'
minutes longer it threatened t
o-drown
9 "
once
There is a tornado passing over the nau3P mass
ground
more—hail, storm, and rain. The lid i 8 -
of mud. Who
The
disappointment
of the many person- is
r
wished to spend a quiet snug. day in Sebastoosi.
diminished by the knowledge that there is Post
tive order against going into the town, an will
General Pelissier has declared his sentri streets
shoot any persons who may be found in the ibe
in disobedience of that injunction. Passes evi„„leot,
issued from the Adjutant-General's dePar'q the
without which all persons will be stoPPed sn'nhea
entrances to the works. The rain and hail Clile-Ad to
the fire which the wind had previously faun- left
littlereo
exceeding fierceness, so that there was
for. the flames to devour. Sebastopol is ne.w,.,31,10,01c
et. white ruins, streaked and barred Wit'"
smoke. cleleied

For some reason unknown the mail is gel'st
.nrig
to-day. Althoughrthe wind is high it is not
enough to preitgk' good steamer going O°
All sorts of contradictory telegraphic esqust'
have been going from the Admiral to the it is
office at headquarters throughout the day „Ai&
a strange coincidence that delays occurred ia 'ope
ing off the mail after Alma and Inkerolan• the
order way that the mail was to be lauded frost 13$-
Arg) at Kamiesh and sent to the Argus, at„3leo
laklava, or vice versa as to the ships, for the
are rather puzzling.

ANOTHER ACCOUNT.
(From the Correspondent of the Daily Netts )
,i,„
CAMP BEFORE SEBASTOPOL, SOT. ing
g
The Union Jack and the Tricolour are at last we° of
over Sebastopol. Long before the following detailiss
the great achievement by which this glorious result op
been accomplished can reach you, the electric teleg,l,,ut
will have spead the news of our triumph throur :id
England and France, bringing joy to the masses'
sorrow, alas ! to many a bereaved home ; it 04°1'4 ti
therefore, to us, whose slower messenger is the 11 4h
merely to furnish the particulars of the struggle 1/13-
has ended in so glorious, though costly, a success. „sl
When my last letter was being despatched the i'-i.
volleys of the bombardment were booming on the eit•b;
and the brave battalions by whom the attack was t° t.
made were parading a few hundred yards from my tel%
The Light and Second Divisions being those selecteclot:_
our own share of the operation, the regiments oftb. v ;
two most distinguished sections of our arm)? reedo,.el
orders on Friday night to have two days' rations co.,..seg.
and served out at six o'clock on the following ni°11:1•100
At seven a.m. the first storming party, consisting o'‘.ol,
men of the 97th Regiment, under Major Wels_l',o,
and first covering party, 100 men of 2d battalion_
,tirtii
Brigade, under Captain Fyers—paraded, and battalion_
to
afterwards marched down to the trenches ; schere:oo-
former took up their position in the new boYeatid the
ning out of the centre of the fifth parallel, shoo fer
latter in extended order on their left, ready
tt° or
their advance, and keep down the fire from hed I:7oay
pet of the Redan. Half-an-hour later, the see"
ttoder
of storrners, composed of 200 of the 97th , over
Col. Hancock, and 300 of the 90th under Capt. `-'1 0 the
followed, and formed immediately behind the
parallel itself. After a similar interval these each
, • O.
f 'Bowed by working parties of 100 men from each of . b,
two Divisions engaged, succeeded half-an-hour let;
e,si.:
supports of 750 men each from the 19th and 88th, . se
first, i
were
ments, with part of a brigade of the Second niViisiv, for
these were stationed in the fourth
advancing into the. fifth as soon as the assault was"' uje
Lastly came the reserves, consisting of the first brig i ith
of the Light Division, who, as the sequel will shear's: QIN
their usu it luck, came in for a share of the actual asof t he
parallel, rsatLi ,30
This, I think, is a tolerably accurate staterantof i be
relative division of the duties of the attack, an •
strength of the parties employed. ea ''
As on the 18th of June it was again arrauc 0
reto 4
the English should assault the Redan and the OO s.
the Malakhoff. The experience of that disastrous to is
sion, however, taught the necessity of pern3ittiaog to a
latter redoubt to be first captured before our ewof th e
attempted the former ; inasmuch as the guns ,pal .8
Round Tower effectually commanded the °Pell,a nrore /'
over which a force attacking the Redan tea'
_t tit •
To be sure there as reason to believe st"thencea
Malakhoff had at length been effectuallyeffectually,.. ea b'
but a similar notion was entertained 00 ti.e-degiri I
sion of the last assault, and its error Mall'-
proved. Every embrasure but one of the daylig4at
hid had been blocked up as early "
that Ilei
of the 7th ; but this was no guarantueoe
der cover,
guns had not, as before, been drawn in
lj jag for the'l3d-
ready in a minute's time to clear en ° with grape 3''
selves and receive an attacking fel.° Of June. Ja'°'
canister, as on the morning of the
ht
cordingly the guns of our own rig,-
play vigorously on the Round Tower ti f
that its osoll
before noon on Saturday, notwithstauding
au ecca '
f re--
fire had all but entirely ceased the day be ere
1... it gore
sional shot from a single gun being all the Poe 2,ic y
to the onslaught of the besieging artillery.
_r_o, whi Ch
laSttta.?sc_oenivtiranuinedatgi:
lakhoff, therefore, even more than on the li c 4
was to be stormed by our own men, did oufrgenen:
their fire, rendering the work a perfect
nd precisii) Of
ploding shells, and to the sustained vigour and preCl ,
ploding shells, and to the sustained
ibuted the
success ' 1f
P 1-
of this practice is mainly to be attributed t
time , y
the attack which followed. In them e.aonto
their it• i.
30,000 French bad been moved down
other g
cover'c
0f s-
e,t,
vanced trenches before the Mamelon a
General Bosque
was
Und' ir
spots around it, under the command of
Our own force, I am forgetting to mention,.
en
sv.
mend ; GeVell ''
General Markham as second in command t e
Twenty-on
,
the chief direction of Sir William Codringt , it ,
Simpson himself being somewhere near h
in the ma •••
uGaugne
mßeant Battery, e
or
fy ,
the but
operations.
led the French '
ceased, and the party of Zouaves, wof
their advanced
attack, dashed over the
ParaPehtad crossed the inter-
At twelve o'clock exactly the firheoof the
batteris. I
sap, and in less than a minute
along up the parapet
vening forty yards, and were oast
0 hope, one solitary
of the Round Tower. Contrar
with a discharge, and there
tgunhat oork was the only piece
e our allies were inside
orneeethiveedprtohpeerasisiaguhitteorfs tbeyw
%%33 no time to reload it e
after swarm of our allies
but small. Swe'm •
grape was
the redoubt ; the mischiefb
embankment, till the whole
to.
inflicted by its one round of
crowded up the steep
red with them, and then co
pet was literally
to ol before. I can compare
the ravines round Sebes
usketry as never echoed throne
Ph' but the rattling tattooeS
hut
ssed 70,000
nfautry fire
d in a general action but lave ur
men ebgage . •
oumfee unbroken oe
thousandk e such
ec oh r a t
i ntM
tongs
nei tocyorof covered
moe nut
drums. 1 n.
but as child's Play c°
gI
ave
delivered on the ocGasion was
As usual, no Or*
Malakh .Ef during Saturday's attack.
• of the oneration ea°
cea-eless roll that poured in upon t.he
cpuamre:l:Littibaitobre
complete narrative
from the habitual iecommut.lic i. els
but from °°.
be given, Wings ,
our allies observe in all their proceedings ' at•v'ene - vihich

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