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 ■11 I LORD RAGLAN'S INSISTENCE ON CHANGE CHAPTER XII. LORD RAGLAN'S INSISTENCE ON CHANGES IN THE PLAN OF THE SIEGE. chap. With a keener sense than all others of the danger XII ' that lay in such paths, but seemingly urged by convictions which forced him to encounter the risk, Lord Eaglan had already insisted on chang- ing that part of the siege-plan which threatened to renew a great error, and summon his people once more to assault the Eedan without being at the same time assured that the Work on its right, that is, the Flagstaff Bastion, would be similarly attacked by the French. Memoran- It was under the form of a Memorandum pre- 21st of pared by our Chief Engineer, and then ' forwarded ' to General Niel at the French Headquarters ' that, so early as the 21st of June, the changes in question were broached.* First suggesting that the counsels submitted to the Generals-in-chief for the taking of Sevas- topol should be examined anew, the paper pro- posed nothing less than that the French should June. Sent to 1 i e French Head -quar- ters.
 * Journal of the Royal Engineers, vol. ii. p. 330.