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 A RETROSPECTIVE GLANCE. 263 counter-approaches; the resignation of Canrobert, CHAP, and Pelissier in command of the French ; ' Pelissier inaugurating his accession by hard, victorious fights ; his entire accord with Lord Raglan ; A renewal of the Kertch expedition, resulting m the conquest of all the lands worth occupation in the Kertchine Peninsula, in the conquest and opening of the Cimmerian Bosphorus, the estab- lishment of full dominion in the previously closed Sea of Azof, and the expulsion of the Czar from his two last remaining strongholds on the Circas- sian coast ; The Emperor and Pelissier directly opposing each other, one commanding again and again with dogged persistence, the other meeting dicta- tion with flat disobedience supported by a fierce strength of will ; The victorious attacks of the 7th of June ; The discontent of the Emperor still 'galvani- ' cally,' as the victim expressed it, tormenting his distant general, and then the ill-omened ' eight ' days ' interrupting Pedissier's command of his warlike faculties, and fraught with the mischiefs that followed in simply natural order ; The fell return of Cholera — striking down the brave Admiral Boxer, assailing too General La Marmora* — and of dysentery and fever to the camps of the Allies; And, always meanwhile going on from October to June, the siege, the siege, the siege — to re-
 * The brother of the Sardinian Commander.