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JOURNAL OF •THE OPERATIONS OF THE
ARMY BEFORE SEBASTOPOL, FROM THE
Ist TO THE 17th OCTOBER.

(From the Paris Moniteur.)
OCT. I.—The French army was charged with the left
of the attacks against Sebastopol, and the English army
with those op the right. The former was divided into two
bodies. One of observation, composed of the Ist and 2d
divisions, commanded by General Bosquet, occupied the
positions which command the valleys of Balaklava and
of the Chernaya; its left joined the English near Inker-
mann. Its object. was to protect siege operations
against any attempt en the part of the enemy coming
from the interior of the Crimea. The other corps, com-
posed of the 3d and 4th divisions, under the orders of
General Forey, was specially charged with the. siege
works. The Turkish division was to act as a reserve to
either corps as circumstances might require. The landing,
which commenced yesterday in the Bay of Kamiesch,
continued. At six o'clock in the morning, the second
brigade of the 3d division supported a reconnoissance
made to the south of the place by the generals command-
ing the artillery and the engineers. At noon the second
brigade of the 2d division supported a reconnoissance made
by the same generals on the west side. These two recon-
noissances were not disturbed by the enemy, and were exe-
cuted without any accident. The sentinels of our advanced
posts approached without firing to within 300 metres of
some videttes of Cossacks placed at from 500 to 600 metres
from tl e outer wall ; none of the enemy's troops were seen
, out of the place.
OCT. 2.—As the 4th division was to leave the Bay of
Kami' sch to take up its positions for the siege, four bat-
talions belonging to the Ist, 2d, and 3d French divisions,
and the Turkish divisions, were placed round the bay to
secure the landing, and to furnish men for the different
operations. These battalions were under the command of
Lieutenant-Colonel Raoult, of the staff. In the morning
the 4th division took up a position about 3,000 metres
from the town, its left leaning on the sea towards the
small bay of Strelitza, and its right at a distance of
3,200 metres from there on a large house called the
White Honkie. The English army effected its movement
of concentration towards its right, in order to take up
its definitive positions. \ Its left, formed of the division
of General England, leans on the large ravine of-Sebas-
topol,i which separates the two French and English at-
tutu; ; and its right, formed of the division of General Sir
De Lacy. Evans, on the cliff of Inkermann. The-centre
is composed of General Cathcart and the Duke of Cam-
bridge, having in advance of them the light division of
General Sir G. Brown, and in the roar the largo parks of
artillery and a few cavalry. A reconnoissance, sent out in
the morning from the corps of observation, saw, on the
heights which command the roadstead to the north, from
5,000 to 6,000 Russian troops escorting a considerable num-
ber of vehicles, which left the'town and took the road to
Bakchi Sarai. Towards noon the outposts made known
the approach of some troops of the enemy; it was the
escort returning. General Bosq net placed 200 Zouaves on
tho last height which commanded the defile of the bridges
of Inkermann. Surprised by the fire of these Zouaves
at the moment when they were advancing on to the
bridges, the head of the column of Russians rapidly fell
back out of gunshot. As the Zouaves by advancing would
have exposed themselves to a cress fire from the place,
from the gun-boats, and from the cannon of the Russian
column, they remained in their position. They were
withdrawn in the evening, as this place came within the
position of the English. The Russians, undercover of the
einpgrifsroonmer during i
night, re-entered the place. Captain de Dampierre, an
orderly officer of General Bosquet, while . returning in the
v
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lost his
efway, Cossacks.and was
made
OCT. 3.—The landing of the materiel was continued with
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their reconnoitring of the ground. A number. of men be-
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fire opened on them, having shown that the place had a
considerable armament of very heavy guns and of long
range, it was decided that the squadron should land for
the siege operations 30 pieces of their heavy artillery, as
well as some mortars ; 1,000 sailors were to land with
these guns, 500 to work them, and 500 as a rescirve. Capt.
Rigand do G-enouilly, of the Ville de Paris, had the com-
mand of thorn. The three last squadrons of the let Afri-
can Masseurs were landed.
OCT. 4.—The landing of the materiel and its removal to
the siege parks continued: Soldiers were employed, as on
the previous day, in conveying 1,300 gabions from the bay
to tho park of artillery. Tho 3d division approached the
place, its left leaning on the White House, to the right of
the 4th division, and its right on the grand ravine of Se-
bastopol, thus fronting the north and the town, and unit-
ing our points of attack to the left of the English. In the
rear of the centre of that division was placed the park of
the engineers, and on the rear of the right was the great
park of artillery. Tho head-quarters-were in the' rear of
those two 'parks, in an intermediate point between the
siege corps and the corps of observation. The corps of
observation commenced on its front, which commands the
valleys of the Chernaya and Balaklava, some field-works
intended to form the works of circumvallation.
OCT; s.—The artillery and engineers continued their
landing and their preparations. The officers of the en-
gineers and the companies of that force attached to the
siege-corps and the corps of observation established their
quarters at the park of the engineers in order to be at the
disposal of the general in command. Some of them re-
mained with General Bosquet, in order to establish the
works of circumvallation. At eight o'clock in the morn-
ing the sth battalion of the foot Chasseurs and two bat-
talions of the 3d division, under the command of General
d'Aurello, axeade a reconnoissance to the west of the place
under the direction of General Bizot. Before they started
four men were wounded at the place of mustering by the
splinters of a shell at 3,200 metres from the works. They
returned at noon, having accomplished their mission, in
spite of a heavy fire directed against them. About three
o'clock in the afternoon the enemy made a sortie to a dis-
tance of one kilometre of the place and set fire to a house
near the sea to the loft of the 4th division. Tho Russians
retired at the first appearance of our troops.
OCT. 6.—The personnel of the paying department and
all their materiel landed from the Pandora. 500 gabions
were carried up from the bay to the park of artillery. The
3d squadron of the 4th Hussars arrived, and replaced the
Ist squadron of the African Chasseurs' in attendance as
orderlies on the generals. The lab African Chasseurs,
complete, were placed under the orders of General Bosquet,
with the exception of a small detachment which remained
with the siege corps, .and were relieved every two days,
and who wore employed as videttes on the front of the
positions. The reinforcements from Varna began to arrive.
The carps of observation had 2,000 workmen actively em-
ployed in completing the works which had boon commenced.
At daybreak, a recormoissance made by the enemy with
about 3,000 men, half of whom wore cavalry, and sup-
ported by two batteries of artillery, advanced as far as
the Chernaya and sent ooit 20 horsemen as videttes. Someshells thrown by tho English ,artillery among these 200
men drove them back to the main body, and the whole
reconnoissance then retreated on Mequeusia. In a recon-
noisanco of the place, Captain Schmitz, of the engineers,
was killed by a cannon-ball. The English began to en-
trench the point of the' plateau, so as to unite their posi-
tions with our works.
OCT. 7.-600 gabions were conveyed to the park of artil-
lery. 300 sick
embarked on board the Provencale for Con-
stantinople. Orders were given to preserve the biscuit
barrels which *mild be used by the artillery as gabions.
Storehouses of provisions were formed in each division, which
would be distributed in such a manner that the men should
always have four days provisions in their bags. The store-
houses established at the head quarters would supply the
cavalry, the reserves, the parks of artillery, and ongineers,
•Sro. The enemy has not reappeared on the side of the
Chernaya. A daring reconnoissance was made last night,
a l'Arabe, by an officer and ten Algerian tirailleurs, who
returned and reported that they had gone as far as the Bal-
bek, and only saw the bivouac which had been made by
the Russian troops who made the reconnoissance on the
6th. At six o'clock in the evening nine battalions of the
3d and 4th divisions, under the orders of General de Lour-
mel, advanced towards the crest of the ground which sepa-
rates the town from our camps, in order to render the in-
t vestment of the place closer, Their left leaned on the house