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 244 THE EMPEROK S PLAN. CHAP. IX. Acceptance by our Government of the pre- liminary ar- rangements ; aa recorded at Bucking- ham Palace. men (with perhaps indeed 10,000 more), and to be commanded by Lord Kaglan. The ' 2d army of operation ' — called afterwards by Louis Napoleon ' the army of Diversion ' — was to consist of 45.000 French troops withdrawn from before Sebastopol, and of the 25,000 men — also French — assembling in reserve at Constantinople, in all 70,000 * men, under the personal command of the Emperor or such person as he might appoint. So far, our Government approved the suggest- ed arrangements ; and accordingly, after another Council of War assembled at Buckingham Palace (at which were present the Queen, the Emperor, Prince Albert, Marshal Vailhmt, Lord Palmer- ston, Lord Clarendon, and Lord Panmure), there was framed a Memorandum recording the agree- ment thus reached. Lord Panmure duly signed the agreement by command of the Queen, and Marshal Vaillant by command of the Emperor. TIL The Era- peror's plan of cam- paign : his plan as regarded the ' 1st 1 army of 1 operation.' For the conduct of the held operations, the Em- peror's proposals were these : — He proposed that Lord Piaglan, at the head of the ' 1st army of ' operation, should move forward across the ' Tchernaya, and, first of all, take and occupy the ' high ground above Inkerman, including Mac- ' kenzie's farm.' t Not aware that those Heights f So understood at the time by our War Minister. Panmure to Lord Raglan, Private, ^Otli April 1855. Lord
 * Put in subsequent expositions at 65,000.