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 GKEAT AND VAIN PREPARATIONS. 115 on the transactions of 1855 has enabled me, if chap. iv. so one may speak, to avert disappointment, and warn enquirers beforehand that, when seeing recentais- General Canrobert engaged in the promised cosures bombardment, they will see in him — not a real Chief, but rather — a fettered lieutenant without the freedom of action, without the ulterior pur- pose which alone could give mighty significance to his use of the French breaching guns.* in chap. v.
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