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

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r ground they stood no chance with our men.
iments halted, extended their line to the left, and
Lced a tremendous file-fire. The enen, disorder
returned a shot, but stood theh
iundreds and hundreds. Thrice they
to break our line on the left, and were met each

ground, and
ved np

of musketry, until

g up all their stre

At this 1
i for a f

I effort, when (

Iliert came up wi

Le the (

nts of Zouaves, five rc

'snowed no sign; of
advanced towards tt

contrary, the 3
1 a strong
with as much

force of artillery, and commenced a terrrible
tack on the enemy's right flank. This occurred at about
even o'clock, and from that moment the Russian chance
as hopeless. Yet, though unda the French fire they were
terally falling by battalions, they never showed
gns of trepidation or disorder. On the contr

ps coul

Russian

tat, they disj
About this

_ up in the most beautiful order, altered their front
co 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-
-red, and flung themselves headlong upon the enemy,
„ing 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
regiments were stabbing, beating, and firing at each other
in the most fearful manner. At last the enemy gave way,
began retiring in good order across towards the In-
-.ermann heights. Until I saw it, I never in my life could
have believed that any troops in the world could have

brmed

Whichit— was
%Idoin
iLder the spier

as to leive el
I
11. entirely _

ht for ti
4:llPiza

-r,nglish troops. In spy
advanced at the point
the battery, poured i
less than a minn
4"ful

.e, they

they neared

Lte the R

retired under such a mixrderons fire in such perfect order.
The French and English, with a whole mass of artillery,
followed close upon the retreating battalions, pouring in
volley after volley of grapeshot, shell, and musketry. In
fact it was a perfect carnage. Yet in spite of this the
emy kept their order, retreating almost at slow time,
-..d every five or ten minutes halting and charging des-
perately up the hill -at our men and the French. In these
charges the Russians lost fearfully. We received them
with volleys of musketry, and then dashed at them with
the bayonet. In one of these charges the 50th French
Regiment of the line re-captured the two guns which in
the commencement of the day we had lost. By half-past
two o'clock the great mass of the enemy had completely
fallen back, leaving between 7,000 and 8,000 dead upon
the field behind.

Yet hard.

he battery

'hen the Russians rallied a

and the

sPot, poured in volh
gallant 20th and 47th
klillery re-opened on
neither friend nor'foe could hold it

mns'of the
he Russian

fall back, and

moment. 'Thrs turn of Possession wasj
our fellows again dashediip at it, and a
massacred all in the place. The batter 3
approaches, were now covered with En

nvever, bat brief;
ain they literally
itself, and-all its

[sh tnd Ru6iia

"Vses and wounded. The
whenever the enemy occu'
„,.."49uneted all our fellows wt
This is no battle-field tumuli
which 1 can myself vouch ;

Ithe extreme

About ten o'clock, while the Russians were gaining
ground on our right, the garrison, to the number of about
12,000, made adesperate sortie upon the French trenches
on the left. A most obstinate and bloody battle ensued,
which ended in the enemy being completely repulsed at
all points. They, however, succeed(

he day, when

the battle seemed g(
"'ailing the wounded
around. When the
the Russian artillery 4-

the Russians

eir part of the

in entering one
I was

W make it quite untenabl
guns was on the hill on the
uverlookino oor

the Russian
Tchernaya,

battery, and spiking and dismounting seven guns
not present on this part of the field, but I have been in-
formed that the battle lasted about an -hour. It was
principally a musketry fight. The French lay in their
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.

...ry, L so aunuran was siation
Belectedthatit wasw
quiteMl ible imposs that ourthe
mentucould
attempt to storm. If they had lx
have been destroyed. Accordingly
vanced for the purpose of endea
enemy's guns. The 20th and 471
the Two-gun Battery, and our field
the wall near the post road. B
menced a tremendous

artillery ;vas ad-

) silence the

On the afternoon of Monday (the day following thk
Attie), Lord Raglan, attended the funerals of General Sir
'G. Cathcart, of Brigadier Goldie, and of General Strang-
,...y, along with eleven other officers, were buried
near the windmill. The dreary work of burying the dead,
and removing the wounded from the field, occupied the
day. 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 sth. The army accord-
ingly took up its place on the 4th, and attacked on the
sth. The officers who are prisoners say that they had
very little difficulty in getting the guns up the hill, which
we considered inaccesible. 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
the wounded. I most certainly saw no signs of intoxica-
tion, or even " primieg," on any of them. They lost
nearly 10,000 men on their march round from Odessa,
from sickness and fatigue. Their sufferings they describe
as terrible. Neither the Grand Duke Constantantine nor
Prince Alexander was actually present on the field. They
remained all day on thc 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, reproaching them as
cowards and traitors to their ceuntry, and compelling
them to return to the attack.
The Morning Herald correspondent, writing
.Bth instant, says: It has been decided that the place is
not to be stormed for the present. We are said to be
waiting forntrong reinforcements. To-day, a flag of truce
was sent into Sebastopol. The bearer of it carried a letter
from the allied commanders to the commander-in-chief of
j the Russian forces. It stated that General Canrobert
L 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-
; mating manner, as then the allies would now how to act.
The letter also contained a hint that in case of our pri-
t sours being ill-treated, the Russians would do well to
I remember that we had many of their countrymen in our
e hands, whose treatment would ba regulated by that which
enemy, in and our men received from them. A Russian major was cap-
the Coldstreams tured at the close of the battle. He had been observed on
d opposition, and many occasions stabbing and hacking our unfortunate
one so, the enemy wounded with his sword, and directions were given to a
) take and keep
ap the hill, and .pay of the Guards to take him alive, if possible. This
they effected after a slight resistance on his part, and
m all points ; but
after his haying offered in vain a bribe of some gold pieces
hting with perfect
to our men to allow him to escape. He is to be tried by
mpletely encircled court-martial to-morrow, and the depositions and sentence
Coldstream say, forwarded to whoever of the many generals now in Sebas-
up for lost, and
hree times did the • •
topol is the commander-in-chief. If they consent to
punish him, he will be given up to them. If they decline
ittery, and by the ff, r __ Lt._ 1---- -e -:LAI:LarI warfare

rile hassian infantry I ways

until eight
Guards came

From this time
ry battle. The

to take their share in the battle on our
"4e, but this accession of strength was more than counter-
,4lttncecl by the arrival of a division of Russian infantry
I'9 artillery, about 20,000 strong, who moved up from
`,llkerman to reinforce their countrymen. The instant
uctese reinforcements came up, the action again became
general. The Russian s
bodies of infantry
and

crawled up

the hill, they were encountered wi

apparently

enemy's

artillery was turned full
manding position and ad

their corn-

Much execution. It
Batter

Le Two-gun

struck Major-General Strwan

,ed away his

thigh, vafiile he was giving
Position which our batteries
'ways was carried to the rea

Poor St

Led limb was

lrntnediately amputated ; b

'general only

survived the operation a few n
sustained this loss when several
°al' artillery were cut down, (

H;rdly had we

ortally

wounded, while superintending the v
The 20th and 47th had in the meant
lost the Two-gun Battery
ration to say that, whenev

of the guns

It is no exagge•
took this little

alp lo WS LI 41.1Gua an, to v•
the spot • our men were unal
of the Russian artillery on t
oswhen we retired from the pla
"'all 15 per cent. that of the
As the enemy's reinforceme

n consequence

that our loss,

Ily more

on the

'e into action. The Guards
teniain of the duke's dil
a„t talaklaya—had been
thefreaaentae conspkuously,
IrPori ti
little ov,
41ina,to which the
to

are all that nor

le time, but now
the fig

,ancl. ny
utation

?AO men. (

I the victory of
ave done much

l'etvv L.— ills
_. een t

and five corm
°llt on picquet in the rear. N
bore the thick of it. Whil
defended the wall, the Cok

Coldstreams which

rs and Grenadiers

Sain re-captur Two-
ltal importanceedthe that theb ent
themselves in this position. And I
ensued for this position. The nur
,Found the battery, was at least
enarged and broke their way, tl
got to the work. The instant th
the
to redouble their
le Place. Fresh regime
threw themselves into the batt
the Coldstreams held their gron
desperation. The battery was a
in front, flank, and rear, and,
every man in the' place gave h
~
termined to sell his life dearl
Russians throw themselves ur-

dous struggle

Sheer weight of ti
Yet each time tl
was frightful. So

&Lawrie' e, nu win iie EOL, as ue Laws m iL mvi,v,. ...•--^- -
Leir masses surmount and cross the ;mils, .A,LI
denounee the killing of defenceless wounded as murder.
driven back again. The melee denounee
he is found guilty, there is not the least hope of his
-,..... "-- ^-4--onists, that after escape, as the allied generals are determined to
.make
to load. The men
met, or beat each examples of all who disgrace themselves by such mhu-
kets. Each time inanity. The Russian prisoners say they had four generals
killed and three wounded, and that all their officers, as

once firi

then stood np at
other down will'

were tarried to t

he rear,

and it was over the corpses of their comrades that they
—advanced each time to a fresh attack. Every now and
then_ the Russians made a desperate dash to enter by the BATTLE WITH THE RUSSIANS IN THE
brasures, but were bayoneted in the attempts till the
- PACIFIC.
Inibrasures were choked with corpses. All this time the
Coldstream Guards alone, almost unaided, and only 500
2011 g, had been keeping at bay nearly 7,000 of the enemy's BY the steam-ship Pacific, Captain Nye, which arrived
'ir°Ps. But at last they were compelled to retire. The in Liverpool on Tuesday night, we have news from New
;Lassians came round in rear of the battery, and kept up York to the 11th inst. She brings 59 passengers and
,vni a distance a tremendous fire of musketry. The , 593,648 dollars. The most interesting feature, by this
'oldstreams did not abandon the place while the least hope arrival, is the intelligence received at New York, by the
nit
of defending it successfully. They then charged
_North Star,. from California, respecting the proceedings
t 11t in a body on the enemy in their rear, leaving eight of the allied fleets against the Russians in the Pacific.
~
Ceers and nearly 200 men killed and wounded in the The authentic news of the declaration of war by Eng-
batte---„, behind them. All V.. wounded were instantly land and France against Russia reached the allied squadron
a/aneted by the Russians the officers' bodies in Callao just after the departure of several Russian
and their vessels from that coast. The Russian vessels went to the
butt-ends of muskets. Sandwich Islands, and thence, as it was supposed, to
Ifought their way to Petropaulowski, or the port of Peter and Paul, in Kams-
,ere coming up to chatka, in lat. 53 deg. N. Thither the allies went in
which then did search, leaving the Sandwich Islands on the 25th July.
up to where the They found the northern ocean covered with heavy fogs,
useless attempt, which compelled the vessels to sail very slowly. The fog
upon our right was very often so thick that it was utterly impossible to
'ntire Russian see the signals a hundred yards off; and the Eurydice was
1, in the act parted from the other vessels in the fog, and was not seen
upon their again until they met at Petropaulowski, at the end of
with diffi- August. The, season admitted of no delay, and the yes-
_ 1- eels prepared for immediate action. The place presented
nherfrof I unexpected obstacles. It was supposed that the fleet
-4- would find a town with few soldiers, and few fortifications
of any kind ; but they found a formidable for-
, protected by eight detached batteries, containing in
more than 120 guns and 1,800 men. Three days after
wing the Sandwich Islands, the admirals, having no
-'ht of finding a Gibraltar at Petropaulowski, de
- • Ainnh;t-,4

;,..re found With as many as 20 hayonetl
wcompletely smashed WI
ing the battery, the C(
re the Fusiliers and G
r assistance. The thy
Muster 1,000 men, tril
s 8 an artillery was firing
tile enemy had then nem_
red The handful of Guards d
rpents back at the end of the
°f dents
it, such masses of the
that they were compelled
kutY could extricate themselveu
ilts under the wall had belt
tz enemy at hay ; five or
0,41°11s advanced to take it
tieti.s under our tremenda
hlad this wall the Gun
ere' to meet the enem
Awe
the v. „-gun Bat

All this time the re

I in re

~m„e.tt

Guards

orns miractdous: The
tsla'Llek. They no longer i
vtlt warmings up by the T 1
111/°4 right flank in tree
PAt this moment there wei
e 1749. to oppose whom tl
zglish. Aides-de•eamp we
444foreements from the Frei
ourstil)o their line of tents. T
aten retired the enemy attack it. The 30th and 41st
baost

to take it

After taking this fort,
Ivisable to send a body of men to get
hind the main fort, and make a diversion in the rear

ily carry on the

in fron

were sent for this purpose, and an American undertook t(
guide them around to the rear of the fortification, but h(
took them into a thick brushwood, where a large number
Df Russians were concealed. The Russians began a mur
derous fire upon the French and English, who, after a shore
resistance, fled with the loss of about 150 men killed an(
wounded. They left their dead upon the field. The;‘,

ie of the smalle

ad take 43 R

diately after the return of tl
.1 a council was held

iulowski, and the pur

arpose of tt

tack was