This, however, was later on.
On the morning after his arrival all was expectation, for it was known that the bombardment was about to recommence.

At half-past two o'clock the roar of 157 guns and mortars in the British batteries, and over 800 in those of the French, broke the silence, answered a minute or two later by that of the Russian guns along their whole line of batteries.

The day was hot and almost without a breeze, and the smoke from so vast a number of guns hung heavily on the hill-side, and nothing could be seen as to the effect which the cannonade was producing.

It was not until next morning that the effect of the fire was visible.

The faces of the Russian batteries were pitted and scarred, but no injury of importance had been inflicted upon them.