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CONTENTS OF VOLUME I.
CHAPTER I.
Departure from England - Gibraltar Fortifications Malta
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Gallipoli Golden Horn
Pera
Constantinople
Kululi - Scutari barracks Review of British troops
Arrival of Lord Raglan - Ditto of Prince Napoleon Lord
Raglan's house Fire at Stamboul Baggage animals -
Mr. Filder, &c. - Arrival of Sir George Brown Ball at
French embassy Presented to Marshal St. Arnaud, &c.
Arrival of the Duke of Cambridge - Loss of cavalry horses
"Sweet Waters " Inspection of divisions Sultan's
banquet to allied commanders Officer drowned Visit to
Varna of allied generals - Departure of Light Division for
Varna French and English commissioners Newspaper
reporters Grand dinner at English embassy - Loss of
"Tiger" Varna - General Beatson and Colonel Lloyd
Defences of city · Omer Pasha View of Russian army
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Bashi-Bazouks Cossacks Deserted village - Forest
Balchick-Dinner at Marshal St. Arnaud's
scribed -
Country de-
Re-
· Arrival of Omer Pasha at Varna - Review
turn of cavalry from the Dobrudscha Lord Raglan
George Brown - Lord De Ros General Estcourt Com-
missary-General Kustendje Difficulties - Death of Cap-
tain Hyde Parker - Projected expedition to the Crimea
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- Horace Vernet
tion of the French to the Dobrudscha
Fatima Hanoum- "Fury" reconnoitring - Admiral Dundas
Preparations Cholera French losses
Theatricals
Illness of heads
'Times'
of departments, &c. Cholera in allied fleets Council of
War Fire at Varna - Austrian Commissioners
Continued cholera - Mr. Calvert, chief interpreter
Baldjick Bay - Accident to Zouaves - Distress of Canrobert
Sir George Cathcart - General Airey, &c. Embarkation
of horses, &c. French hospitals · Left Varna Plan of
transports Mail from England
--
ference of allied Generals
Off Eupatoria - Con-
French Navy Reconnaissance
of coast Katcha river Allied fleet off Cape Tarkan, &c.
Lord Raglan's camp Contrast with Marshal St. Arnaud's
French pillage Sak March Order of divisions
Bulganak
Cavalry encounter - Col. Lagondie - Bivouac ·
Alma Disposition of divisions
army pass the mouth of river under cover of fleet
- French
Malamak
- Bourlick - Marshal St. Arnaud's orders
- Turner's battery - Attack of Light and
23rd regiment
Delay in arrival of artillery
Brigade of Guards and
Capture of guns
Rout of Russians
Enthusiasm for Lord Raglan - Ex-
citement - Sir Colin Campbell — Flight of enemy - General
rington - Kindness to wounded - Russian prisoners -- Sailors
View of Sevastopol - Khutor Mackenzie - Surprise of Russian
baggage Night bivouac Lieut. Maxse, R.N. Genoese
bour —
"Agamemnon" - Hospitals - Resignation of Marshal
St. Arnaud - Departure for France - General Canrobert
French cupidity
before Sevastopol - "Berthollet
- Head-quarters
Allied camps - Recon-
naissance on heights of Inkermann - Death of Marshal St.
Arnaud — Alarm - Breaking ground - Redoubts - Trenches
- Batteries — Naval Brigade — Accurate aim - First parallel
- Bastion du Mât-
Garden Battery, &c.
works Bombardment of 17th October
Statistics - English attacks - French
Explosions
French fire silenced-Lancaster gun-Naval brigade - Rus-
sian sortie — Artillery — Superiority of English engineering
Allied fleets - Admirals Hamelin and Dundas - Bom-
bardment by fleets Casualties - French disasters · - Lord
Dunkellin Death of Colonel Alexander, R.E. Captain
Peel, R.N. "Vladimir " - British daring
- Captain Nolan and Lord Lucan
Masterly retreat of the General
Chasseurs d'Afrique - Casualties - Rus-
Charge of light brigade
Colonel Shewell
sians retire Reinforcements for Balaklava Sir De Lacy
Evans's action, Oct. 26th― Russian rejoicings in Sevastopol -
Flag of truce "Nous sommes Chrétiens" — English prisoners
Progress of siege - Russian reinforcements - "Sanspareil "
English extreme right Cold nights - Information from
Russian deserters Zouaves and horseflesh - Russian can-
nonade
cavalry
- Illness of Sir De Lacy Evans - Movement of light
CHAPTER VIII.
Russians
Grand Council of War 4th Nov. Russian reinforcements
Morning of 5th Nov.- Advance of the enemy on 2nd Division
camp Lord Raglan Cossack Hill - Sandbag Battery
Four guns taken by the enemy
captured by Russians
Retaken Advance of the Guards, and recapture of Sandbag
Battery - False attack on Balaklava - Arrival of 4th Division
- Mistake of Sir George Cathcart - His death
again take the Sandbag Battery - Barbarous treatment of
our wounded by the enemy His Royal Highness Duke of
Cambridge and Staff General Bosquet's reinforcement of
Zouaves and Tirailleurs - General Canrobert - French troops
placed at Lord Raglan's disposal - Final capture by the
Guards of Sandbag Battery Russian artillery and steamers
- Desperate fighting, four English generals wounded - Death
of General Strangways General Canrobert wounded - Two
18-pounders brought into action - Sang-froid of Lord Raglan;
his indifference to fire Panic of French troops
Pennefather "Quel bon Général!" - Reserve of French
troops Sir De Lacy Evans Enemy begin to retire
Their artillery limber-up Lord Raglan's desire to pursue
the Russians "Les Black Caps" Field of battle after the
action. Numbers of dead - Sir De Lacy Evans's extraor-
dinary advice to Lord Raglan-Sortie against French trenches
-Forces of the enemy - Their plan of attack, &c. - Council
of War 6th Nov. Russian losses Letter from allied Gene-
rals to Prince Menchikoff Interment of Generals Cathcart
and Strangways - Losses of the English on 5th Nov..
Council of War 7th Nov. Russian wounded
the allied generals Court of inquiry ·
Reinforcements
Dreadful state of roads - Deserters from the enemy - False
alarm "Shaves" in Russian camp Lord Raglan's accu-
rate calculations Anecdotes of the battle
engaged at Inkerman
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- English force
Dreadful hurricane, November 14th
Tents, &c., blown down Sick and wounded exposed to
the storm Sufferings of the troops in the trenches
Losses of transports off Balaklava The Prince goes down
with warm clothing, &c. &c., on board - Damage to English
and French fleets - Losses at Eupatoria — Russian deserters
Numbers of English generals incapacitated or dead
Polish deserters Capture of the "Ovens" by a party of
Rifles Death of Lieutenant Tryon - Dreadful weather
Lord Raglan visits all the camps
Losses in cavalry horses
- Sufferings of the troops from the inclemency of the weather
The cholera again breaks out Lord Raglan visits the
different hospitals - Council of war of the English generals
of division - Three sorties on French trenches .. Page 403