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 MOVEMENT OF TURKISH TROOPS. 109 flank and rear of the enemy was doing excellent chap. service, and besides did not like that the narrow, '. the cramped seat of war to which the besiegers unfortunately had perforce become chained should be loaded by the additional presence of Turkish troops, whilst moreover he took it for granted that the measure would be displeasing to Omar Pasha. But in proportion to the increasing depth of that gloom which we have seen overcasting the mind of General Canrobert was his anxiety to secure the proposed reinforcement ; and his in- stances made with this object became more and more constant and more and more urgent. Lord Eaglan still resisting, Canrobert approached Omar Pasha himself, and found him willing on certain specified terms to come on in person to the Cher- sonese with a large portion of his army, and to remain there for a limited time. Lord Eaglan did not think fit to oppose the thus conjoined wishes of the French and Turkish commanders ; and Arrival before the close of the period which this chapter Pasha in person with spans, Omar Pasha was brought to the Chersonese a large force r ' ° of Turks. with from 15,000 to 18,000 men supported by thirty pieces of field-artillery.* XII. It was perceived by the Eussians that the men- of-war they had sacrificed after the battle of the Alma in order to close the entrance of the Eoad- stead were no longer so holding together as to
 * Lord Raglan to Secretary of State, April 7, 1855.