THE APRIL BOMBARDMENT. 175 with authority. Time, however, has changed the chap. conditions; for the then young lieutenant was des- . — tined to attain to high fame in the profession of arms; and it is with the mature judgment of a general officer well versed in the business of war that now he reviews what he witnessed on the 13th of April 1855 — the fight maintained under Oldershaw in the ' advanced No. VII.' Speaking thoughtfully of a branch of the ser- msjudg- vice which was not, remember, his own, Sir Ger- oiderenaw' aid Graham says: — 'The Koyal Artillery never ' hesitated to engage at any odds, and they never ' had a hotter morning's work than in No. VII. on ' that 13th of April' * VIII. The 'advanced No. VII.' was restored and pre- Both the advanced pared for new fights with so great a despatch as Nos. vii. to be asain in working order before sunrise on batteries ° ° . got ready the very next day, that is, on the 14th of April; for fighting •i <* > on the hum d and, its sister work 'No. VIII.' having also at 1 1 '^ h of the last been armed, the commanders of the two little batteries now supposed to be both in readiness could engage them, men thought, side by side, in a renewal of the venturesome conflict which had been maintained the day before, that is, on the 13th, by our ' advanced No. VII.' alone. On this day (the 14th) the 'advanced No. VII.' Bngagemeni . t> of the No. was commanded by Captain Henry t of the Uoyal vn. bat-
- Letter to me, dated Cairo, Egypt, Nov. 18, 1883.
t Now Lieutenant-General Henry.
