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 FROM THE MORROW OF INKERMAN TO THE FALL OF CANROBERT. CHAPTER I. THE SIEGE OP SEBASTOPOL PROM THE 6TH OP NOVEMBER 1854, TO THE MIDDLE OF THE ENSUING FEBRUARY. I. By following the course they approved on the chap. morrow of ' Inkerman,' the Allies did more than ' siege. make waste of that onward momentum which nowtom- 8 victory is wont to confer ; * for they even, as we wh^might saw, gave their adversary the priceless respite he '" needed for his Flagstaff Bastion ; t and not judg- ing the Sebastopol front to be anywhere else in a state that could warrant assault, they now found their armies committed to what — unless roughly cut short by recurrence to bold resolves, or by some grave disaster befalling them — seemed destined to prove a long siege. t See ante, vol. vi. pp. 5, 6, and 488. VOL. VIII. A
 * See ante, vol. vi. p. 488 et seq., and also note to chap. i. vol. vii.