THE WAR
... It was to be eaxp)cted that after so 'h an attempt, and it must be admitted, auch a rebuff, as the affair of the 18th, some interval would be permitted te elapse before anything fresh was attempted. Soldiers, however brave, are but flesh and blood after all, and the gallanh assaulters of the Malakoff are no exception to the role. *the sur- vivors of that dread day are said to be unusually ...