[Jack Archer by G. A. Henty]@TWC D-Link bookJack Archer CHAPTER XXII 12/18
The three officers of one detachment were all wounded, and of the other one was killed, and one wounded. Jack had in the morning regretted that he was not in orders for the service, but when at night the loss which those who bad taken part in it had suffered was known, he could not but congratulate himself that he had not been detailed for the duty.
The total British loss was twenty-two officers and 247 men killed, seventy-eight officers and 1207 men wounded.
The French lost thirty-nine officers killed, and ninety-three wounded, 1600 men killed or taken prisoners and about the same number wounded; so that our losses were enormously greater than those of the French in proportion to our numbers.
The Russians admitted a loss of 5800 killed and wounded. Jack was with many others a spectator of this scene from Cathcart Hill; but it must not be imagined that even a vague idea of what was passing could be gleaned by the lookers-on.
The Redan, which was the point of view immediately opposite, was fully a mile away.
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