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k and file, wounded,

TOTAL CASUALT

ES ON THE

STH -SEPARIT'

43 officers, 32 sergeants, 4 drummers, 380 rank and file,
killed ; 102 officers, 121 sergeants, 17 drummers, 1,694
rank and file, n ounded ; 1 officer, 6 sergeants, 191 rank
and file, missing.

Total.-43 officers, 32 sergeants, 4 drummers, 383 rank
and file, killed ; 103 officers, 122 sergeants, 17 drummers,
1,710 rank and file, wounded ; 1 officer, 6 sergeants, 191
rank and file, missing. Killed, 462 ; Wounded, 1,952 ;
198 ; total, 2,612.
J. B. EUCRNALL ESTCOURT, Adj-General.

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A RETURN OF THE WOUNDED IN THE NAVAL BRIGAD
2ND AND 3RD OF NOVEMBER, 1854.

ON THE

Wounded

slightly

2ND NOVEMBER, 1854 k
Richard Webb, ordinary, Trafalgar,

3RD NOVEMBER, 1854

Wounded : Mr. Philip Brock, mate, Britannia,
slightly ; Mr. Spalding, mate, London, slightly ; Thomas
Wrann, A. 8., Britannia, severely ; William Glass, captain
forecastle, Albion, slightly.
Total, 2nd and 3rd of November, 1854, 5
STEPHEN LUSHINGTON,
Captain Commanding Naval Brigade.
To the Military Secretary to H. E. Lord Raglan,
Commander-in-Chief of the Army.

A. RETURN OF THE KILLED AND WOUNDED IN THE

NAVAL BRIGADE ON THE 4TH AND STH NOVEMBER,

4TH NOVEMBER, 1854.
Wounded : John Lloyd, A. 8., Vengeance, severely ; Mr
Wilson, mate, Vengeance, slightly.

srn NOVEMBER, 1854.

Killed : John Wood, A. 8., Albion

Wounded : Joseph ,
Herris, second mate Britannia,
slightly ; James Galloway, A. 8., Rodney, severely; Wil-
liam Tout, A. 8., Vengeance, dangerously; Frederick
Mackin, ordinary, London, dangerously ; James Brien,
A. 8., Rodney, slightly.
Total killed, 4th and sth Nov., 1854, 1; wounded, 7.
STEPHEN LUSHINGTON,
Captain Commanding Naval Brigade.
The Military Secretary to H. E. Lord Raglan,
Commander-in-Chief of the Army.

A RETURN OP THE WOUNDED IN THE NAVAL BRIGADE,
ON THE 6TH OF NOVEMBER, 1854.
Wounded: Mr. Selby, mate, Diamond, slightly; James
Berry, A. 8., Trafalgar, slightly. Total wounded, 2.
STEPHEN LUSHINGTON,
Captain Commanding Naval Brigade.
To the Military Secretary to H. E. Lord Raglan,
Commander-in-Chief of the Army.

THE FRENCH GENERAL'S DESPATCH.
Head-quarters, before Sebastopol, Nov. 7, 1854.
Monsieur le 3/lar4chal,—l have the honour to confirm
to you my telegraphic despatch, dated November 6, and
thus worded :—" The Russian army, swelled by reinforce-
ments coming from the Danube, and by the reserves
collected in the southern provinces, and animated by the
presence of the Grand Dukes Michael and Nicholas, yes-
terday attacked the right of the English position before
the place. The English army sustained the combat with
the most remarkable firmness. I caused it to be supported
by the division of General Bosquet, which fought with
admirable vigour, and by the troops nearest at hand. The
enemy, far more numerous than we, beat a retreat with
enormous loss, estimated at 8,000 or 9,000 men. This
obstinate struggle lasted the whole day. On my left,
General Forey had to repel, at the same time, a sortie of
the garrison. The troops, energetically conducted by him,
drove the enemy back into the place, and inflicted on him
a loss of a thousand men. This brilliant day, not pur-
chased without loss by the allies, does the greatest honour
to our arms."
The action summarily expressed by the despatch given
above was one of the hottest and most violently contested.
From the first musket shots that were fired, the deserters
that came over to us revealed the true state of the Russian
army with respect to its effective strength, and we were
enabled to calculate the reinforcements it has successively
received since the battle of' the Alma. These are-Ist,
some contingents from the Asiatic coast, from Kertch and
Kaffa; 2ndly, six battalions and some detachments of
marines from Nicolaieff; 3rdly, four battalions of the Cos-
sacks of the Black Sea ; 4thly, a great part of the army of
the Danube; 10thly, llthly, and 12thly, some divisions of
infantry, forming the 4th corps, commanded by General.
Dannenberg. These three divisions were transported by
posthorses, with their artillery,from Odessa to Simpheropol,
in a few days. Finally arrived the Grand Dukes Michael
and Nicholas, whose presence could not fail to over-excite
this army, which forms, with the garrison of Sebastopol, a
total of at least 100,000 men.
It was in this condition that 45,000 men of this army
surprised the point of the heights at Inkerman, which the
English army had not been able to occupy with sufficient
forces. Only 6,000 English took part in the action, the
remainder being employed on the siege-works ; they vali-
antly sustained the shock until General Bosquet, arriving
with a part of his division,: could lend them such aid as
might ensure success. One hardly knows which most to
praise, the energetic firmness with which our allies braved
for a long time the storm, or the intelligent vigour dis-
played by General Bosquet, when conducting a part of the
brigades Bourbaki and d'Autemarre, in order to attack the
enemy, who extended beyond them on the right.
The 3rd regiment of Zonaves, under the chefs de batail-
ton Montaubon and Dubos, there justified most signally
the old reputation of the arm. The Algerine Rifles (tirail-
leurs), Colonel de Wimpffen ; a battalion of the 7th Light
Infantry, Commander Vaissier ; and the 6th Regiment of
the Line, Colonel de Camas, vied with them in ardour.
Three times they crossed bayonets with the enemy, who
only yielded ground after the third charge, upon which he
left it strewed with his dead and wounded. The Russian
heavy artillery and their field-pieces were very superior in
number, and had a commanding position. Two horse
batteries, Commander de la Buussiniere, and one battery
of the 2nd division of infantry, Commander Barral, the
whole under the orders of Colonel Forgeot, sustained, con-
currently with the English artillery, the struggle during
the entire day.
The enemy decided on beating a retreat, leaving behind
more than three thousand dead, a very large number of
wounded, a few hundred prisoners, as well as several
powder chests, in the hands of the allies. His losses in
the gross aggregate cannot be put down at less than from
8,000 to 10,000 men.
While these events were taking place on the right,
about 5,000 men of the garrison made a vigorous sortie on
the left of our attack siege. line, under cover of a thick fog
and along the ravines that facilitate their approach. The
troops on duty in the trenches, under the orders of General
de la Motterouge, marched against the enemy, who had
already invaded two of our batteries, and repulsed him,
killing more than 200 men on the site of these batteries.
Lieutenant-General Forey, commanding the siege corps,
arrived by rapid and skilful evolutions with the troops of
the Fourth Division to the support of the Guards in the
trenches, and himself marched at the head of the 6th bat-
talion of the Chasseurs a pied. The Russians, repulsed
along the whole line, retired precipitately on the fortifi-
cation, with considerable loss, when General Lourmel,
seeing them fly before him, and carried away by a chival-
rous courage, flung himself headlong in the rear with his.
brigade, and fell wounded under the very walls of the
fortification. General Forey had much difficulty in extri-
cating him from the very advanced position to' which,
yielding to the impulse of superabundant courage, he had
led his brigade. The brigade of Aurelle, which had occu-
pied an excellent position on the left, covered his retreat,
which was effected not without a certain loss under the
fire of the fortifications. Colonel Niol, of the 26th Regi-
ment of the line, who lost his two chefs-de-bataillon, had
taken the command of the brigade, the energetic conduct
of which was beyond all praise. The enemy in this sortie
lost a thousand men killed, wounded, or made prisoners,
and, in addition to this, received a very considerable moral
and physical check.
The battle of Inkerman, and the contest maintained
by the body of besiegers, has shed great glory on our
force's, and has augmented the moral strength which the
Allied armies have always possessed. At the same time
we have suffered losses which must be regretted. The
English army has lost 2,400 men killed or wounded,
among which are to be reckoned seven generals, three of
whom are killed. The French army has suffered to the
extent of 1,726 killed or wounded. We have bitterly to
regret the loss of General de Lourmel, since dead' from
his wounds, whose brilliant qualities promised a grand
career in the future. It is my painful duty also to ac-
quaint you with the death of Colonel du Cumas, of the 6th
Regiment of the line, killed at the head of his troop, at
the very instant in which they came in contact with the
enemy.

The vigour of the Allied troops, subject as they were to
the twofold struggles of a siege of unprecedented diffi-
culty, and of battles which recal the greatest struggles of
our military history, cannot be too highly praised.
THE GENERAL-EN-CHEF, CANROBBET.

THE RUSSIAN GENERAL'S DESPATCH.
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of November 5:—
The sortie against the English, directed by General
Dannenberg, was very fortunate : eleven guns in the
English batteries were spiked. On this the French ar-
rived to the support of the English forces. The English
siege artillery was placed in position, and it.was not pos-
sible for our field artillery to oppose it with advantage.
The enemy's superiority in men, armed with carbines,
occasions us great losses in horses;:gunners, and officers
of infantry. This circumstance did not permit us to finish,
at least, without sacrificing the troops, the taking of the
redoubts, which we had begun to carry. The retreat
was effected in good order, and the dismounted guns were
withdrawn from the field to Sebastopol. The Grand
Dukes Nicholas and Michael were in the midst of this
terrible fire, giving an example of courage and sang froict.
Simultaneously with this sortie, a regiment of infantry,
‘ecompanied by a light battery of artillery, executed a
the French batteries, and spiked fifteen
;ans. Our loss in killed is not exactly known : the
number of wounded is 109 officers and 3,500 men. General
Soimonoff, who was wounded, has since died, Two other
Inerals and five colonels have been wounded. Major-
ieral Prince Menschikoff (not the commander-in-chief),
qneral, and one colonel have received contusions.
General Dannenberg had two horses killed under him, and
all the persons who surrounded him have been wounded.
The loss of the enemy cannot have been less than ours ;
and the sorties have cost the French dear, as, in following
in dense masses, they fell under a heavy fire from Bastion
No. 6. At the same time that the above movements took
place, the troops under Prince Gortschakoff made a strong
demonstration on Kadikoi, and kept in action the enemy's
force at Balaklava.

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DETAILS OF THE BATTLE.
From the preceding despatches it will be seen that
notwithstanding a vast disparity of limbers, ak,