[142] See Chapter xviii.
[143] The national defences, such as they are, being an accomplished fact, these strange people are now making themselves active in the promotion of the last suicidal mania—the Channel Tunnel!
[144] Vide Kinglake’s “Invasion of the Crimea.”
[145] There are of course curious stories about as to the cause of the Emperor’s death: for one of these see “Journal of the Rev. J. C. Young,” vol. ii. p. 331.
[146] Figures will conclusively prove who bore the burden and heat of the day. The English loss was: killed, 25 officers, 19 sergeants, 318 rank and file; 81 officers, 102 sergeants, and 1,438 rank and file wounded. The French loss was simply 60 killed and 500 wounded. The Russian loss in killed and wounded was 5,709.
[147] Kinglake’s “Invasion of the Crimea,” 6th edition, 1877, vol. iii. p. 305.
[148] Kinglake’s “Invasion of the Crimea,” 6th edition, 1877, vol. iii. p. 349.
[149] At 8.30 a.m. the Russians had 17,000 infantry and 100 guns opposed to 3,600 English with 36 guns and 1,600 French infantry and 12 guns [Ibid. vol. vi. p. 321]. Three hours later on, Canrobert had under his orders 9,000 fresh men, who remained inactive: “So far as concerned any active exertion of infantry power, our people were now left to fight on without any aid from the French”—Ibid. pp. 416, 417.
[150] Ibid. vol. vi. pp. 439, 440.
[151] A more telling commentary on our useless waste of blood and treasure could scarcely be found. Truly they manage these things better in Germany.