The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-11-28 00:00:00

,ttack On the enemy's right flan'

o'clock, and from
hopeless. Yet, though under th
ally falling by battalions, they never showed the least
signs of trepidation or disorder. On the contrary, they
formed up in the most beautiful order, altered their front
so as to meet the attack of the French, and, extending their
line to the left, prepared to resume their attack upon the
English. At that time, however, our men were well pre-
, pared, and flung themselves headlong upon the enemy,
t° .charging with the bayonet. The Russians boldly charged
with the bayonet also, and, for the space of five minutes
the 30th, 41st, 49th, 88th, and six or seven Russian
gun outcry regiments were stabbing, beating, and `firing at each other
.
in the most fearful manner. At last the enemy gave way,
fame of
.:the and bpsran rptiring in good order across towards the In-

s they nearet _ermann heights. Untill saw it, I never in my life could
nd charged have believed that any troops in the world could have
at wil
tired under such a murderous fire -in such perfect order.
.e battery, vrench and English, with a whole mass of artillery,
followed close upon the retreating battalions, pouring in
Itrnd the volley after volley of grapeshot, shell, andn musp f
thi ketry. s
tln
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n ont with

gallant 20th and 47th, and at the same time the Russian -
en-ern kept their order, retreating almost at slow time,
artillery re-opened on the battery in such a manner that
and everyy five or ten minutes halting and charging des-
;d friend nor foe could hold it. Under these circum- perately up the hill at our men and the French. In these
,d to fall back, and
charges the Russians lost fearfully. We received them
un battery fora with volleys of musketry, and then dashed at them with
however,but brief;
the bayonet. In one of these charges the 50th French
self, and all its Regiment -min they literally of the line re-captured the two guns which in
'
!.. the commencement of the day we had lost. By half-past
and Russian ~...,, r:olrvar +lu CPPASIt MAR. of 1111, PIIPTTIV had eomnleteir

;lances 'ae
tee enemy

moment. -This turn of Possession was,l
stir fellows again dashed up at it, and a
Massacred all in the place. The
.b?.tter3

°rPses and
18 whennvei

)unded

fallen back, leaving
the field behind.
e About ten o'clock, while the Russians were gait-lints,
ground on our right, tbe garrison, to the number of about
W nen
12.000, made adesperate sortie upon the French trenches
the Russians on the left. A most obstinate and bloody battle ensued,
part of the
which ended in the enemy being completely repulsed at
lie battery all points. They, however, succeeded in entering one
nner as
bad' and spiking and dismounting seven guns. I”-

1 the extreme,
they

between 7,000 and 8,000 dead npoi

bonneted all our fellow
This is no battle-field ri
Which 1 can myself vol
the battle seemed goin
killing the wounded
Found. When the 2(
the Russian artillery r
to make it quite unt(

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not present on this part of the field, I have been in-
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formed that the battle lasted -about an hour. _,
al principally a musketry fight. The French lay in their
...,en could
ron they must trenches, and fired on the enemy as they advanced. The
French had only four or five hundred killed and wounded
The Russians left about 2,500 upon the plain.

tillery was ad-

rested from On the afternoon of Monday (the day following the
advanced to battle), Lord Raglan, attended the funerals of General Sir
then coin. Cathcart. of Brigadier Goldie, and of General Strang-
lo

Russian infantry I w

Leven other offic

s, were buried

the windmill. The d

v work of burying

ag the wounded from the field., occupied the
Russians, who, is is said, lost 10,000 men

remained quiet.
The Russian army, it appears, had arrived at Balaclava
on the morning of the 3rd, and a council of war was im-
mediately held, at which it was determined to make a feint
attack on the rear of our defences, and a real attack on
the right of our position on the 6th. The army accord-
ingly took up its place on the, 4th, and attacked on the
The officers se prisoners say that they had
ug the guns up the hill, Which
• Thirteen heavy pieces of field
artillery were got up, and it is principally to their destruc-
tive fire nown on our lines that our terrible losses are to
attributed. The Russians, in all, had about 60 and 70
guns in action. Generals Osten-Sacken and Liprandi
conducted the assault. The latter was slightly wounded.
The prisoners, one and all, deny that they were drunk, or
had any spirits before commencing the attack ; small
quantities of a spirit like brandy were found in the can-
teens of some of the men, but this they account for by
saying that every thirtieth man has one of these flasks for
`he wounded. I most certainly saw no signs of intoxica-
, even " primieg," on any of them. They lost
nearly 10,000 men on their march round from Odessa,
from,sickness and fatigue.-. Theinsufferings they describe
as terrible. Neither the Grand Duke Constantantine nor
Prince Alexander was actually present on the field. They
remained all day on the slope of the heights on the north
side of the harbour, beyond Inkermann. By the order of
the Grand Duke, no less than five distinct divtsions were
sent up to try and maintain the footing which they had
got on the heights of our camp above Inkermann, As
each division failed to effect their object for .more than a
few minutes, the Grand Duke assailed the commanders
with the most opprobrious terms.
cowards and traitor.. ._
them to return to the attack.
The Morning Herald correspondent, writing on the
Bth instant, says : It has been decided that the place is
not to be stormed for the present. We are said to be
waiting for strong reinforcements. To-day., a flag of truce
was sent into Sebastopol. The bearer of it carried aletter
from the allied commanders to the commander-in-chief of
the Russian forces. It stated that General Canrobert
and Lord Raglan had seen with detestation and disgust
the merciless cruelty with which the enemy bayonetted
our wounded upon the field, and requested to know if the
war was to be carried on in this barbarous and extermi-
nating manner, as then the allies would now how to act.
The letter also contained a hint that in case of our pri-
soners being ill-treated, the Russians would do well to
remember that we had many of their countrymen in our
hands, whose treatment would ba regulated by that which
our men received from them. A Russian major was cap-
tured at the close of the battle. Ile had been observed on
many occasions stabbing and hacking our unf?r,tunate
wounded with his sword, and directions were given to a
party of the Guards to take him alive, if possible. This
they effected, after a slight resistance on his part, and
after his having offered in vain a bribe...ofsome gold pieces
_ Ls,

very little difficulty in gc
we considered inaccesible

tion,

_ aching them as
to their country, and compolling

uy
to our men to allow him to escape. He is to De u-icu
court-martial to-morrow, and the depositions and sentence
forwarded to whoever of the many generals now in Sebas-
topol is the commander-in-chief. If they consent to
punish him, he will be given up to them If they decline
to interfere, he will be shot, as the laws of civilised warfare
denounee the killing of defenceless wounded as murder.
If he is found guilty, there is not the least hope of his
escape, as the allied generals are determined to make
examples of all who disgrace themselves by such inhu-

manity. The Russian prisoners say they had four generals
killed and three wounded, and that all their officers, as
soon as they fell were carried to the rear.