The following narratives describe the British assault on the Redan and the final storming of the Malakoff by the French.

These daring Yankees, who are in the habit of braving the wildest tempests on every sea, these sturdy English, who march into the mouths of devouring cannon without a throb, these gallant Frenchmen, who laugh as they scale the Malakoff in the midst of belching fires, are not the men to run like sheep before an imaginary terror.

MacMahon himself remained in the Malakoff with Vinoy's brigade.