The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-10-29


our Entertainments, presented the greatest alie and
| required the choice Of the favorable moment.
Turing this time the enemy continued from the oth
September to increase his horizontal and vertical hre
1 with incredible violence and pulverizng our
works on the whole line Of defence, sometimes firing sal
VOC frs all his batteries keeping up rolling
fire OF artillery This internal fire. directed principally
against the brasures and merons we'd evidently
that the design of the enemy TO di mount our gums
Our gnnpers falling in great numbers and could NOT
be replaced From the 9TH TO the 9Th Of September we
had placed hoys coatat three staff officers seventeen
superior officers three thousand nine hundred and
soldiers without counting the servants Of the
| batteries.
After redoubled FIRE the night of the 7th-Sth, the
enemy O'Clock in the morning discharged from the
trenches nearest the kernlo tastion three mines
which overthrow portion of the parapet and the
Ions at the salient of the bastion.
| About the same time the enemy's columns began to
form in the direction OF the English 22gun battery,
and in the second parallel behind the kamtschatsa
nete, and the troops mad filed the approaches
Our line Of defence divided Into two parts following
the nature Of the soil The defence of the front Of the
| city westward of the southern Day, confdei to
Iisntenant eneral Se1akne; thai Of the front of the
Karabenaia under the orders Of Lieutenant al
Khroulef The right Line, the line of the city, was
was formed Of sections kree four and i've AT the
that the enemys troops collecting In in the
advanced trenches facing the Malako MILL the ninth d.
vision Of infantry under the orders OF eutenantGen
eal khrouef posted itself the second line Of defence
Thestb September at 11s O'Clock in the morning the
enemy left his trenches, AID threw himself in swarm
the salients Of the bastions No. aud kerniof.
The losses being filled and the parapeta demolished
penetroted into bastion No. and spiked portion OF
the guns he had already reached the second line Of de-
fence when he driven back at the point of the bayo
Mayor Iaroschevtch at the head OF the baaons
Of the Beioser regiment In the meantime Ma or Gene
raj sebaschnsk fastened with three regiments bas
ton No q and repulsed successfully three attacks
that point whilst the YES es moorsd In the bay Of Kara
bepaa and the northern batteries kept up violent fire
the tss rss % ,se i1s
baslicn No. with regiment of chasseurs, but the
enemy having been already rePasec be posted himself in
the ceraur frise overthew tie regiment Of Mu
ruski but again repulsed with the bayonet BY the
Enormous masses consisting of five French divisions,
forming effective force Of about thirty thousand men
then precrated themselves on the saents Of the Kern
loft bation. Colonel Fteund again repused the French
with the bayonet at the head Of some companies butt
he had been wounded, and as the columns were still
pressing they sliced upon the upper
extremity oi the baston General KhrouleT wound
ed in an attempt to dsodge them. Major General Lys-
sepko, who succeeded in command also received
serious wound Major General Juscrow, who succeeded
him. was killed Lieutenant General Martinan then took
the command Of the troops but he also received severe
and battaons killed the officers also srewed the
ground. The troops defended themselves with valor
yieh 70 the numerical superiority Of the enemy
At the same time, as he attacked bastion No the
and drove from it the regiment Of Chasseurs Of the Grand
Duke Michel After having seized upon this battery the
enemy kept up fire through the embrasrres without
Towards noon the English, supported by strong
serves, attacked the salient angle OF battery No. The
assisted In good time by companies Of the regiments
kamtschatka and Jakoutsk rushed on tie enemy with
the bayonet and drove back the English already
he was S an epsed y Colonel Th n
result. A detachment Of the enemy was stationed in
the trenches, from whence it kept up violent fire OF
mu.sAetry: 4s volunteers Of the regimen. Vladimir,
into the trenches and chased of the English.
Whilst we were engaged In repulsing the assault
teries Buditchtshe and Jahovsk he was repulsed by
the nfantry regiments Of sousdae and ahousk and the
attack was more renewed on that point The salient
angles siege batteries attacked at the same time
battery No 3, but the assailants experienced fire
well sustained that they did not think a. to descend
into the fosses but COMMENTED them elves with violent
FIRE Of musketry, which inflicted losses the
combined battaions of the regiment OF Vohgne and OF
hnsk Three attacks we're again gepused on this point
upon the third division had been repused the fire from
the battery Of the bason No directed against the
himself with strengthening the cannonade against the
right side of the line of defence. About 2h
volunteers s left the advanced trenches and marched
against the unete BjeIkine Compact columns, 10 GOO
men strong, marching behind this chain rushed mpe
tuousy in the ravne but asailed by grape they were
epused and hastcned TO ron the troops who Mt that
moment we've assautng the salient angle of has ion No
g. In spite of the grape and fire Of the puske ry the
columns which attacking baston No. had cleared
the losse and were the point Of assembling the
parare when Colonel Aennikoif commander Of the re-
gment Of the Chasseurs of Podoe attacked them with
his reserve and repulscd them with the bayonet Whilst
the enemy, repulsed from battery No 8, was retiring
front Ct the redoubt Schwartz and threw themselves in
to the fsc and the epaulmens of the redoubt whose
been previously dismounted The enemys attack
on the front and the left face was repulsed by
fusiladc ard grape, but on the right face the
into the interior Of the reooub The second battalion Of
the regiment of schitomir driven against the left
face where terrible hand to hand contest When
Major General khrcnstehcf, who commanded the left
wing Of the first section perceived the Of the
enemy this point he reinforcement of two
batalions At the time Lieutenant Colonel verev
kline, who occupied the ravne between bastons Nos.
and proceeded at the heal of two companies into the
same redouot OF all the Ftenchmen who had penetrated
into the interior If the work there remained only
The enemys troops which had been assembled In
for the attack Of the first section battered with balls and
Shells retired in disorder into the trenches and made
more attempts to renew the attack.
The Commander In Chief having gone to the seconi
line Of entrenchment in front of the Malako Maueon
and seeing this hill covered with great of French
troops behind whom distinguished strong
became convinced that the re'aking Of the Kernilof
baston would require still enormous sacrifices and it
had already entered into his views to evacuate he city
he resolved take advantage Of the fatigue Of the
salants and of the insuccess which they had expe
Iiepced On all other points to execute this operation to
the last degree difficult. With this he ordered
bastion but to prevent, at any price, the enemy from
debouchng from this point towards the interior Of the
ruined buildings which the northern of the
Mamelon in repulsing all the attempts of the French TO
debouch by the gorge OF the redoubt.
II Is thus that, by the bravery and frmness OF the
garrison notwithstanding the ruined condition Of
works. accustomed oy this long bombar dhent, all the
attacks Of enemy who had in his favor
the immense superiority Of numbers, have BEEN
Iepulsed FIVE points on the line cf defence. Thu
taking Of the Maakof Mamelon the only point where
The assaants succeeded, due alone TO his immense
numerical superiority, which allowed him to direct
this point nearly thirty thousand men, well the
bad cond,n Of the ground to the Of the Malako
which render ed the approach to 1t from the side OF the
city exceedingly difficult.
i,,tth 10
tenant Generals kh,ouef and hartman, and Major
General Iyesenko. have been wounded-hc two latter
grievously General Lyssenko died OF his wounds on
the 18th Of Sepember There have been killed MAJOR
Generals de Bussam, JouferoG Colonies MesenzoH,
Archenevsky, Nidhard Captain Kotzbur, and the Jeou
schtcherba chef. Wounded-Msjor General sarow
Colones Nitschek, Tscheremssonan AlennikoF Freund
the Captain Of the Guard, woejkof Captain MeyendorG
the two latter have since died Of their wounds Major
General Nosson and Colonel Soere have received con.
tusions.
The total loss OF the garrison on the 9Th of Sep.
TENDER, Isl
STAFF Officers. Officers. Soldiers.
Killed. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. IS 2625