New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-10-13

Russian psrspet they were completes to seek shell
ter behind il. the assault degenerated iato Skin
mshiDg fire. and was necessarily repulsed. Wat
this means Gen. Simpson has taken good care to
show us in his assault On thu Redsn. The attack
on The Little Redan was most bloody and the
position we'll defended by the Russians, who here
slone defeated FIVE French brigades,
We have on former occasions noticed the absurd
system prevalent in the British army, OF forming
their storming colImns so weak that they can but
count as forlorn hopes in case they meet with any
thing like serious resistance That blunder WAS
conspicuous in Lord Raglan's pl.n Of attack on
the 18th of June; and it seems Gen. simpson was
determined even to Guido his late chief. The
salient angle of the Redan had suffered from the
English FIRE, and it was determined to direct the
assault against this portion as soon as the Malakoh
should be fully secured by the French. Accord
iDgly, Gen. Simpson had storming parties told of
from the second and light divisions, amounting, all
in all 70 about 800 meu-or the half Of two brig
AIDES The other two brigades of these divisions
were to act as supports, and the third and fourth
divisions were to form the reserves; and beside
these, the Guards and Highland divisions were on
the spot--altogetber force Of $4,000 men; aud
ont of these the actual assault was coutded to
about / 500, supported later on By about 1000
moe! Now, these 800 men, unlike the French,
who could jump out of their trenches into the
Russ ian ditch, had to perform journey OF $50
yards across open ground, exposed to the thanking
fire from the curtains of the Redan. They fell 10
heaps, but they advanced passed the ditch BY es-
caade, penetrated into the salient angle, and here
they found Themselves at once opposed to ire
meDdous fire of grape and musketry from the
coupure and reduits in the rear OF the Redan
The consequence was that they dispersed, seeking
shelter behind the traverses, and commenced firing
on the Russians exactly as the French did at the
Central bsstion. This would not have done any
harm, had the supports and reserves only advanced
and followed up, in close attack, the advantages
already gained But hardly man came, and those
who came, came in driblets aud irregularly.
Three times Brigadier Wyndham, who commanded,
sent officers to ask for the advance OF troops In
regular formation but none were brought All
the three officers were wounded in crossing the
plain. At last he went himself, and prevailed upon
Gen. CodIington to send another regiment whensl
at once the British troops gave way, and abandoned
the kedan The Russian supports had come up
and swept the place clean out. Then Father Slmp'
son. who still had 10000 men intact, resolved to
attempt another assault next morning
This feeble attack of the English on the Redan
stamps their Crimean generals with the indellble
mark of incapacity. They appear to have an in-
nate tendency to surpass each other in laundering
Baaklava and Inkermann were great feats IN that
respect; but the 18th Of June and the Sth OF Sep
TENDER, outstrip them by far. So carelessly was
the assault arranged that while the English held
the'saent of the Redan, not even the guns found
in it were spiked, and therefore these very guns
Piled the English on their retreat as Justify with
grape and case-shot as they bad done during their
advance As to attempts at forcing proper
lodCmoat, neither Simpson ner the newspaper cor
respondents m, ntion any such thing. In TACT the
first precautions appear to have been neglected
The attacks on the Redan, Central bastiOn and
Little hedan were, it is true, mere demonstrations
to certain degree. But the attack on the Redan
still had an Importance of its own. That was a
position by which the conquest of the Nalakof be-
came Immediately decisive, because If the Mala-
koff commands the Redan by its hight, the Redan
commands the access to the MalakoH, and when
once taken, would have taken in flank all Russian
columns marching to recapture that hill The
conquest of the Malakof induced the Russians to
quit the whole of the south side; the conquest Of
the Rec an would have obliged them to evacuate at
least the Karabelnaya in haste, and before they
could organize that well-arranged system OF de-
struction BY fire and explosion under shelter OF
which they made good their retreat. The English,
thep have actually failed to do what their allies
had right to expect from them, and on very im-
portant point, too. And not only have the gen.
erals failed, but the soldiers, too, were not what
they had formerly been. Mostly young lads re-
Gently arrived in the Crimes, they were too eager
TO look out for shelter and to fire instead of attack
ing with the bayonet They lacked discipline and
order; the different regiments got mixed, the Off
GERS lost all control, and thus the machine was out
of train in a few minutes. Yet it must be ac-
knowledged that, for all that, they held out in the
Redan for nearly two hours in dogged, passive re-
sistance while no support was coming up; but
then we are not accustomed to see the British in
fsntry sink down to the level of the Russians, and
seek their only glory in passive bravery.
The palm of the day belongs to Generals Bosquet
and MMahon. BOsquet commanded the whole Of
the French assault on the right, and MMahOn
had the division which took and held the Mala-
koff This was one Of those rare days in which
the French really outdid the English in the point
of bravery. IN every other point they had shown
their superiority over them long before. Are we,
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