Note 169 — CONTINUATION OF THE SIEGE.
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“The covering party for the entire right attack (upwards of a mile in extent) never had exceeded, at this period of the siege, three hundred and fifty men, and on the night of the 21st. of January it numbered only two hundred and ninety men. The guards for the other attacks were equally small.”—Major Elphinstone’s “Journal of Operations conducted by the Royal Engineers.”