"Mamelon" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the Malakoff, its dependencies and neighbors, to absolute silence, and enabled the French to push their works yet closer. The soil between the Mamelon and Malakoff could be cut into like a cheese, and the trenches were more easily made and better constructed here than elsewhere. The English trenches before the Redan had been stopped by solid rock; the French approaches ...
— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Vol. 17 • Charles Francis Horne |
