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est credit on Colonel Stuart, Lord Blayney,
Captain Adye, and the whole corps.
In the next movement of the Turks, they
Were posted on the right and left of the Bri-
tish ; but neither persuasion nor authority
could induce them to forego the old practice
of planting their standards before them in the
little parapet they always throw up wherever
they may be ; while, contrary to the Euro-
peans, they have their ditch in the rear. In
the present case, these standards naturally
pointed out an object for the enemy to fire
at. They also fired at a mosque where the
wounded were put ; and, while a surgeon
was. dressing them, a cannon-shot broke
through the dome, whirled round it, and fell
upon his back without doing him the least
harm. But, as the enemy’s fortified camp
before Rahmanieh was still an object,. Ge-
neral Hutchinson thought proper to delay
any farther offensive measures till batteries
were erected ; but these the enemy rendered
needless, by their evacuation of the entrench-
ed camp during the night.
Among the military men engaged in this
expedition, it became a matter of great ques-
tion, whether General Hutchinson ought by
any means to have attacked the entrenched
position of Rahmanieh, (defended by 4000
infantry, 300 cavalry, 33 field-pieces, and
17 pieces of position,) before Colonel Stuart
had arrived, and he had been assisted with
batteries from the Delta.
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Captain Adye, and the whole corps.
In the next movement of the Turks, they
Were posted on the right and left of the Bri-
tish ; but neither persuasion nor authority
could induce them to forego the old practice
of planting their standards before them in the
little parapet they always throw up wherever
they may be ; while, contrary to the Euro-
peans, they have their ditch in the rear. In
the present case, these standards naturally
pointed out an object for the enemy to fire
at. They also fired at a mosque where the
wounded were put ; and, while a surgeon
was. dressing them, a cannon-shot broke
through the dome, whirled round it, and fell
upon his back without doing him the least
harm. But, as the enemy’s fortified camp
before Rahmanieh was still an object,. Ge-
neral Hutchinson thought proper to delay
any farther offensive measures till batteries
were erected ; but these the enemy rendered
needless, by their evacuation of the entrench-
ed camp during the night.
Among the military men engaged in this
expedition, it became a matter of great ques-
tion, whether General Hutchinson ought by
any means to have attacked the entrenched
position of Rahmanieh, (defended by 4000
infantry, 300 cavalry, 33 field-pieces, and
17 pieces of position,) before Colonel Stuart
had arrived, and he had been assisted with
batteries from the Delta.
*