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 RESULTS. 43 same month that a civil engineer (Mr Campbell) chap. began his operations for making the railway be- — tween Balaclava and cam]) of which we before had Bm] to speak when dealing with the means of supply.* In December the command of our fleet passed command from Admiral Dundas to Admiral Sir Edmund ° Lyons. XII. The defenders of Sebastopol entered upon this Result of 1 the conflict period of the conflict on the morrow of Inkerman, from the 6th ■t of November and therefore whilst under the shadow of not lsgtto tie simply, a bloody defeat sustained by the ' reliev- ^uary ' ing army,' but a defeat with all its horrors brought closely home to the garrison by the propinquity of the battle-field, by the spectacle of disordered troops coming back beaten into the streets, by the piteous sight and sound of the wounded whether led or supported or carried in heaps by endless trains of waggons, and soon after by seeing and hearing how what a few hours before had been strong, proud battalions, were some of them only poor remnants — rem- nants stricken with even more weakness than the scantness of their numbers imported, because in a measure disorganised by the huge loss of offieers ; yet, so high was the spirit of the people, and so great the firmness, the skill, the resource of the great engineer then directing their energies that, far from yielding to depression, or suffering the defence to grow weak, they carried it on with a
 * See ante, vol. vii. p. 33tj.