The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1882-12-30
The Assault on Te1el-Kebir.

The dark line in front lit up with a blaze
of fire rifles and big guns roared and
cracked rockets whlzzed overhead. and at
the magic word charge! = the whole
brigade sprang to its feet and rushed
straight at the blazing line, the b ,ttalion on
the left meeting so hot a fire that FIVE eff
GERS and sixty men went down before they
got to the ditch. For nm inst mt the onward
rush was checked, but the bugler beside Sir
Archibald sounded the advance. A wild
cheer was the response, and the Highlanders
dashed forward with a bound. and, after a
race of some $50 yards. found themselves
under the great sand heaps which formed
the enemy's stronghold. No time to stop
now-over they went. clambering and
climbing. using each others shoulders as
ladders sticking their rifles into the sand
as posts to hold on to one way and another
they got over and inside, to beg n that short
CHASTITY work, the beginning and end Of a
"a GLORIOUS victors.' There was 10 pouSe
on the parapet but each group of soldiers,
as it gained the crest, dashed at the enemy,
and the melee became general and desperate
The Seventy-ninth and Seventy-6fth could
be seen in a large Knot engaged in a hand
to-hand fight with a body of rebels who
were desperately defending an inner line of
work, which met the front line at right
angles and was strengthened by redoubts at
angles. The men gullantly stormed these,
which were as resolutely defended Cen
erals Allison and Hamley. the former re-
volvsr in hand, were in the thick Of it; the
Scotchm II on foot. leading a dozen differ
ent assaults, where the Highlanders rushed
in and bayoneted the Egyptians. The
fighting nd lasted about half an hour I;
there was still a strong redoubt to be taken.
and a crowd of men went at it The
enemy's fire was extraordinarily brisk and
rapid the air was live with bullets and
shells. The H~ighlanders in front of the
curtain found themselves fired on on three
sides, and a great number began to retire
That was ii very ticklish moment, but the
officers succeeded in stopping them, and
they were reinforced from the second line
and again went on. The point in the in
trenchments which the Highlanders carried
had been fortified with much care, and was
apparently the key to the position. A
strong line nearly two miles long had been
constructed ut right angles to the main line
10 guard against a turning moment a Sec
ond line parallel to it in the same direction.
Everywhere redoubts had been constructed,
and wherever there was cover there the
Egyptians stood. General Hamley, how
ever. rallied the men who were standing
thickly, but in no formation. inside the front
line which they had just carried, and led
them straight along these intrenchments,
getting on both sides of them, and thus
taking their defenders in reverse. As one of
the Black Watch says: Cup the bank
we went, and it was full of men, and
they turned on us ike rats in a
trap; but the infantry did not stand ng.
However, honor to whom honor is due; the
artillery-men stood to their guns like men
and we had to bayonet them. AS soon as
that job was done | saw two regiments of
cavalry forming up on the right. 'Prep.Ie