74/88 The Flag-staff Bastion.2d.The Central Bastion.3d.The Malakoff.4th. The Redan.5th.The little Redan. The command of the first was about fifteen feet, its ditch thirty feet wide and from twelve to fifteen feet deep. A portion of the scarp was provided with palisades some ten feet high. The construction of the Central Bastion was similar to that of the Flag-staff, but weaker in profile. |