The Invasion of the Crimea: Its Origin, and an Account of Its Progress Down to the Death of Lord Raglan, Volume 6

W. Blackwood & Sons, 1880 - Crimean War, 1853-1856

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CHAPTER I	1

II	6

CHAPTER III	12

The Horse Guards	23

The Commissariat	36

IV	42

General readiness of the old army offices to act under his guidance	53

The way in which our dispersed system of war administration proved	53

Recapitulation 216	244

Caution that might well have been given by the owners of	254

III	260

The air of stability at his Headquarters	270

The ill policy of the outcry	277

The strategic decisions which resulted in obliging the Allies to win	281

Its curiously planned hostility to Lord Raglan and the Headquarter	283

Their state of health 157	295

A RETROSPECTIVE ENQUIRY	55

III	69

Its expiration at the close of the war	75

And of the inchoate War Department which had ministered	83

Longprotracted continuance of the crippling polity	90

Insufficiency of the steampower in its bearing upon the supply	102

Question of metalling a road after the 17th of October	111

Vital importance of having a metalled road	116

Recourse to England for hay	122

Constitution of the Treasury	132

II	140

The mortality in our hospitals not yet however forced down	154

V	155

Lord Raglans sense of the disaster	164

General characteristics of the winter of 185455 in the southwest 85455	170

The commanding advantages the French derived from their numer	176

Maladies recording the hardships endured by the French soldiers	183

The failure of the landtransport power	190

Carcases of horses left above ground for want of hands to bury them	198

The fortitude of our army	206

Removal of the sick	212

Extravagance of its language in reference to our winter troubles	215

The expedient to which it resorted	222

The nation steadfast	228

Mr Russell	235

The Duke of Newcastles appeal to the editors	242

The need of finding some one to blame	302

The feeling of Lord Raglan upon finding himself and his Staff	309

Ministers balked in their endeavour to sacrifice Lord Raglans Staff	315

Continued anger of our people	322

Lord Panmure well provided with means for informing himself upon	330

Lord Raglans despatch in answer	337

Lord Panmures reception of the despatch of 3d March	344

His report	350

Violence of the language used in the House of Commons	356

Rejection of the motion to make the Committee a secret one	362

Proceedings and Report of MNeill and Tulloch the Commnissariat	368

Enquiry demanded	370

the cause of the avertible sufferings	376

CHAPTER X	383

Supplies of warm clothing	389

The Crimean Army Fund	392

Administered by Tower and Egerton	405

III	411

IV	417

The aid she received from Mr Macdonald and the Times Fund	430

Their power to heal and to cure greatly strengthened by the author	436

VI	449

The Mystery of the Soldiers Nature	477

ILLUSTRATION Sketch Map of the positions occupied by the belligerents	5

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Title	The Invasion of the Crimea: Its Origin, and an Account of Its Progress Down to the Death of Lord Raglan, Volume 6 The Invasion of the Crimea: Its Origin, and an Account of Its Progress Down to the Death of Lord Raglan, Alexander William Kinglake
Author	Alexander William Kinglake
Edition	4
Publisher	W. Blackwood & Sons, 1880
Original from	Oxford University
Digitized	29 Jun 2006

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