It should be noted to show the ardour of the man, though perhaps in many cases such conduct would be imprudent, that corporal Samuel Cole left his post at the sand-bag battery without orders and pitched into the thick of the fight. In reversing the trench he laboured with great zeal, and while endeavouring to place a gabion in a difficult spot, Evans, a fearless soldier, not to be outdone in prowess, leaped outside the trench and pressed the basket in the line. In this act of devotion he fell by the blow of a grape-shot. The following complimentary order was promulgated to the corps relative to the assault:— “Brigade orders before Sebastopol, April 23, 1855. “It was with much satisfaction that the Major-General Commanding received Lieut.-Colonel Tylden’s report of the able manner in which, on the night of the 19th instant, a lodgment was effected in the enemy’s rifle pit immediately in front of the left advance, ‘right attack,’ under Captain Owen and Lieutenant Baynes, R.E., whose zeal and gallantry were most conspicuous, while the conduct of colour-sergeant McDonald, royal sappers and miners, on the same occasion, when, in consequence of the above-named officers being severely wounded, he was left in charge of the working party, was not only highly creditable to that non-commissioned officer, but so distinguished as to attract the notice of the field officer commanding in the trenches; and the Major-General is glad to find, that the sappers engaged, exerted themselves with their accustomed energy.” ----- Footnote 175: Dispatch, 10th April, 1855. Footnote 176: ‘Times,’ April 26, 1855. Footnote 177: Captain, now Major Ewart, R.E., the sapper Adjutant in the Crimea. Footnote 178: ‘Times,’ April 26, 1855. Footnote 179: Light Division orders by Lieut.-General Sir George Brown, dated 16th April, 1855, taken from Captain Owen’s report to Major-General Jones two days earlier. 1855. 20th April-15th May. SIEGE OF SEBASTOPOL.