Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1848-07-21
. Inc have mentioned. was. immensely

the line, have mentioned, was. immensely
strong, The barbados in advance of the bar
riers. were as formidable as regular engineers
could have constructed them. The houses,
covering them, offered the means of passing
from one to another; the toll houses of the
barriers were occupied by them and the win
dows removed; the houses on the side of the
Boulevarde were, moreover, in the possession
of the rebels and manned with workmen:-
What formed, however, the strength OF inns
position was the perforation OF the walls Oh
the city, which is twelve or fourteen feet nlgh'
at intervals of or 10 yards, and the creauoh
| by that means of several hundred loop notes.
What will be the astonIsnment OF all inc
world, and the feeling OF all military men IN
nart;cnior- when they are told that the whole
| If those works were defended by between 80
and 20 ruAians-the largest number stated
was 400. How many of The insurgents were
killed on Sunday at the barrier Rochechouart,
think YOU, while the loss of the armed forces
was more than 1000 One of them was shot
through the brain while forming, through
| Ioop-hole not inches in diameter, and 5 were
wounded: they ran from loop-hoie TO loop
hole with the agility;of monkeys. They only
left the corner of the high wall TO seek ammu-
milton, of which they had only scanty and
precarious supply. [ was shown the mark
of the crucible, under the wall, in which they
melted lead for bullets during the night.
They even attempted TO fabricate gunpow-
der Against these men were brought as fine
an army ard as serviceable park of artillery as
the world could produce, and nothing else
would have sufficed to disIodge them unless
their position had been turned and they had
been attacked in the rear.
When those who have been al Waterloo
learn that for more than mile the wall of the
city of Paris was as profusely furnished with
loop holes as was the garden wall of Honge-
ment, they will easily imagine how formida-
BILE was the obstacle it presented When they
shall bear in mind that the barricades in ad-
vance were composed of paving stones OF a
: hundred weight each, or of the cut stones for
hospital in the course of erection, and that
ihey were protected by houses adjoining to or
) commanding them, and that occasion present
: ed itself throughout Saturday and Sunday fol
a constant, unerriag, and deadly fire from the
: assailants, by an almost invlncible garrison
2 they will not be surprised at the prolonged re-
f sistance, nor at the immense loss of life a.
e mongst the troops and National Guards thai
unfortunately occurred
Let us recollect, however, also, that on 800
S other points of Paris the troops were occupied
: in contending with the rebels at the same mo
: ment, and how this must have embarrassed
the General that the usual means of obtain
= ing information were not available nor wher
S information was obtained to be relied on.
: When these facts shall be taken into con
e sideration, there will not be so much surprise
: at the offensive and defensive efforts of th'
: rebels, who, though comparatively few il
r number, were intimately acquainted with thu
=. ground, and strongly fortified and supported
by the sympathies and the positive CO opera
e ton of the whole population of the contnu
n Gus line of towers that borders on the Boule
j.. wards.