Excerpt from The History of the War With Russia, Vol. 2: Giving Full Details of the Operations of the Allied Armies; Illustrated by a Series of Celebrated Commanders; Events of the War; Battle Scenes; Views of Celebrated Places in the Seat of War Etc
State Of Affairs At 8Ebastopol; Skirmish At The Ovens; Neglect And Sufferings Of Our Troops; Revolting Condition Of Balaklava; Austria Enters Into An Alliance With France And England; Conditions Of The Treaty; Opening Of The English Parliament; Debate Concerning The War; The Foreign Enlistment And Militia Bills; Thanks Of Parliament Voted To The Army And Navy At The Crimea; Adjournment Of The Parliament; Fears For The State Of Our Army; Oration Of The Emperor Napoleon On Opening The Legislative Session; Proposed Railway From Balaklava To The Camp At Sebastopol; Departure Of The Navvies; Sad Condition Of Our Soldiers At The Crimea; Letter Of The Queen Commiserating The Condition Of Her Troops.
Bright, and clear, and cold broke the morning of the 15th of November; the day after the storm. The prospect that presented itself was a gloomy one. The roads were lost in mud; dead horses and cattle lay about the country; and here and there might be seen the suffering soldiers carrying the body of an insensible comrade to the hospital tents. "Passing by the heavy cavalry camp," said Mr. Russell, "I saw the officers and men wading through the mud, from tent to tent, like cranes in a marsh. It would have been a strange sight for their friends. The draughts of the regiments which I met on their way out to join, looked with a curious air of disgust and horror at 'this charming paradise of the Crimea;' but they were stout young fellows, and would soon get accustomed to all the combinations of earth and water which it is possible for natural chymistry to effect." An unimportant skirmish of pickets took place on the night of the 15th between the French and the Russians, and ended in the retirement of the latter.
The siege of Sebastopol went wearily on without making much progress. The ability of the Russian gunners, the dogged resistance of the Russian troops, and the enormous resources of the Russian empire, had been greatly underrated. It is the fault of Englishmen that they always commence by despising the enemies whose courage and ability they at last learn to respect. It was so with regard to the Americans in the eight years' struggle for independence; it was so with the gigantic war against the first Napoleon; and it was so in this crusade against Russian domination.
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