New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-09-14
THE BATTLE OF THE CHERNAYA.

THE BATTLE OF THE CHERSAYA.
Contrary to our expectation the mail of the
Africa, which we received late on Wednesday
night, failed to bring the report of Prince Cor.
cbskof concerning the battle Of the Cheraaya,
fought on the 10Th ult However, the French
and English accounts which we printed yester.
day afford sufficient information for tolerably
correct judgment of the affair. In the French
r. port one is struck by the absence OF that ten
dency TO buster which but too often is innate
in French sabreur, and which was so promi-
nent in Pelissier's first bulletins. Tho old
General is now uncOmmonly clear, business-iike,
and to the peint; be even gives the Russians
full credit for tie bravery they displayed on
that occasion; and his report very favorably
contrasts With General Simpsons amusing calcu-
latons as to the numbers engaged, by which
it would appear that without any great effort
some 1900 French and Ssrdinians defeated
&C, 900 Russians. The facts Of the case appear
to have bee as follows:
On the morning Of Aug. l6, before daybreak,
the Russians descended from the Mackenzie
nights ard teOk up position on the edge of the
bills descending toward ths Chernaya. They
were commanded by Prince Gorchskof in per-
son, under whom Gen. Read com handed the
right wing, (7tn ard 10Th divsions,) while Lii
prsnoi with the 5th division appears to have oc-
cupied the center, while the 18th division formed
the Russian left. Portions Of the 4th and 9th
divisions were also present, and seem to have
divis
with the troops belonging to the 18th and 9th,
form part of the second (Paniutin's) corps,
which had but just arrived in the Crinea; the
remainder were old Crmean troops, and must
have figured with effective numbers very much
reduced.
The ground on the opposite side of the Cher
maya is mostly level, continuation of the
pain of Balaklava toward the river; but close
to its banks this plain is interrupted BY two
groups of hillocks, rising gradually from the
Bslaklaya side, but falling off toward the Cher
MAYA, thus Offering good defensible position
apain,t an enemy crossing the river. Between
these two groups of hillocks lies the valley into
which the British Light Cavalry charged in the
battle Of Bslsklava. The eastern group OF bill
locks, forming the right wing Of the position,
was occupied by La MarmOra with his Two
Ssro inian divisions; the other, toward the north
west, by three French divisions, which thus
formed the center and left Of the position. The
French were commanded by General dHerbil-
Ion. who had disposed Camou's division to the
left, his own in the center, and FaucheuI's di.
vision to The right, where it joined the Sardinisn
division of Trotti. The position gained add.
tiopsl strength from the two obstacles in its i'm
mediate front: fret, the ChernAya, which river
at the time wAs certainly forbade, but still
Obliged the Russians 70 cross at certain places
only, and with small front and secondly, the
squeduct cut in mos. places into the rock, and
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