COLLECTION

OF

BRITISH AUTHORS.

VOL. 650.

THE INVASION OF THE CRIMEA

BY.

A. W. KINGLAKE.

VOL. III.

WITH ALL THE PLANS, MAPS AND EMENDATIONS
OF THE THIRD LONDON EDITION.

Lord Raglan,

Marshal St Arnaud and Lord Raglan brought together at the

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The French and English troops on the shores of the Darda-

nelles,

Cordial intercourse between the two armies,

St Arnaud's scheme for obtaining the command of the Turkish

St Arnaud in the presence of Lord Stratford and Lord Raglan,

His scheme defeated,

His scheme for obtaining the command of English troops,

This also defeated,

Attempts of this kind checked by the French Emperor,

St Arnaud suddenly declines to move his army towards the seat

of War,

Lord Raglan's disapproval of the proposed delay,

St Arnaud's sudden determination to take up a defensive posi-
tion in rear of the Balkan,

Lord Raglan's determined resistance to this plan,

Lord Raglan refuses to place any part of his army behind the

Balkan,

St Arnaud gives way and consents to move his army to Varna,