Note 38 — Chapter VIII · 1855—ASSAULT OF THE REDAN

Lord Raglan, who witnessed the storming of Ciudad Rodrigo and Badajos, forty years earlier, described in Napier’s History of the Peninsular War, wrote: “I never before witnessed such a continued and heavy fire of grape and musketry,” and in a private letter observed, “I never had a conception before of such a shower of grape.”