Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1854-12-21
The Battle of Inkerman.

The Battle of Inkerman. fought be-
tween the Allied troops and Russians
in the immediate vicinity of .Sebastopol
on the 9Th of November. was one of the
bloodiest and best contested recorded in
military history.
| The Russians, forty or fifty thousand
strong, commenced their attack on the
right of the British lines at early dawn
on the 9Th, and that less than 10000
British troops sustained this attack and
held the Russians in check till the French
troops coming up turned the tide and
drove back the assailants with terrible
loss. The battle ragged, with scarcely
any intermission, for eight hours, and
the total number Of men engaged, inclu-
ding those in the sortie on the left Of the
beseigers' lines, could not have been less
than one hundred thousand.
The British report their loss at 2.605.
killed, missing, and wounded. The French
report their loss at l,l20, killed, wound
ed and missing-making the aggregate
loss of the Allies 4,341. That ofthe Rus
slams was much greater. Prince Mems
chikoff, in his official dispatch gives the
number of wounded at $500 men and
100 officers, the dead" not yet exactly
known. Aut telegraph dispatch from
Berlin, says that the Mrdlide RusSe
(the Russian official gazette of st. Peters
burg) reports the whole loss at 40 Off
GERS and 1860 men killed, and 206 Off
GERS and 5,79l men wounded, giving the
total of zoos killed and wounded. The
number of prisoners taken by the Allies
is not given. These were not, probably.
numerous. The aggregate loss, therefore,
on both sides, i'll this murderous battle,
was nearly fifteen thousand. almost one
si.1th of the entire force engaged.
1t was with the earliest dawn. enyelop-
cd in mist and rain, that the allies hear
ing, without seeing, the movement of the
enemy, reused themselves to compre-
hension of that which they were to ex-
pect. They were attacked in position, by
troops coyergirg into a narrow and bro
ken ravine, or meeting ofseveral raylnes;
and here, notwithstanding all the solid
ity ascribed to them in the despatch of
the French commander, the English sol
dieis were repeatedly driven back.
At one time the battle consisted in
the play of artillery upon the soldiers of
either side; at another, in sharp conflicts
Of small arms; but for the most part OF
the time in direct personal encounters
where each side tried against the other
its weight, muscular strength, nerve and
resolve. The 5000 English who were
repeatedly brought forward to meet the
attack were the same men, unrelieyed,
throughout the day.
I The narrownesS of the channel through
which the battle ragged prevented the Rus
slams from using their numbers at once,
but those numbers gave command of
fresh forces in successive relays, SO the
conflict continued throughout the day.
till afternoon; the contending bodies
swayed backwards and forwards as rein
forcements or new resolution lent the
greater impetus to either side.
The arrival of the French first restored
something like aggressive equality to the
side of the allies; and at last, English
"Solidity" and French gallantry proved
greater than Russian fcrocity and num-
bers. The Russians gave way and retir-
ed, their immediate object unaccomplish-
ed, and the path strewed with dead prin-
cipally Of their own.