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 APPENDIX. 377 the transit by about three days — i.e., for example from about thirteen days to ten. Note 2. — Could not divine. — A note accompanying Canrobert's communication of the telegram said : ' Les deux chiffres conserves • sont faux, et n'ont pu etre traduits.' One learns from the Em- peror's letter of the 7th of May to Lord Cowley that by ' 45 ' was meant 'defensive position,' and by '450,' 'attack the Russian 'army.' Note 3. — In their rear. — Under many conditions not hard to imagine, the howl of the Imperial City might have presaged grave troubles for the Allies ; and it was well that the puissant Ambassador, after an absence of several days, opportunely re- turned to his charge. Lord Stratford de Redcliffe had been visiting the Crimea. He landed there on the 26th of April, and left its shore in the evening of the 3d of May. NOTES TO CHAPTER XL Note 1. — Campaigning Plan. — This Paper describing itself as ' Le Plan de Campagne elabore par S. M. L'Empereur Napoleon ' III.' is marked ' Tres secret,' but not dated, and was handed by Canrobert to Lord Raglan on the 14th of May. It is much more compressed than the Letter of the 27th of April, and Canrobert, I see, in his note, calls it the ' resume of the Plan. ' It purports, I see, to assign 70,000 instead of 60,000 men for the defence of the siege- works ; but the larger figure was meant, I believe, to in- clude the 10,000 ' indisponibles ' mentioned in the previous ex- position, and did not therefore import any change. This last Exposition discards the words which had described Lord Raglan 'a ' Army of Operation ' as ' destined to seize the Mackenzie Heights,' but in other respects it does not differ very materially from the Letter of the 27th of April. Both these Papers were frankly im- parted to our people — the first one of the 27th of April to our Government, and the second, as we saw, to Lord Raglan. One or other of the two Papers was brought out by Colonel Fav4 Note 2. — To act in the field. — Canrobert seems to have under- stood — but I am sure erroneously — that Lord Raglan whilst in the Conference was willing to split his force into two armies, and did not until the next day refuse to do so.