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 308 APPENDIX. pp. 242, '2 V,). On the whole, I can say that, with the accounts of Niel and Todleben before me, I entertain no doubt that the fifth tight resulted in a victory for the French. Note 2. — By first reducing the Malakoff. — I base my account of the foregoing occurrences detailed in this chapter upon the despatch of General Pelissier, and the official narratives of Niel, p. 250 et seq., and Todleben, vol. ii. p. 226 el seq. ; and having said thus much, I consider myself entitled to disclaim responsibility for the accuracy of the three generals whose statements I follow. I don't overload the diction by saying in words at every sentence : 'according to Pelissier,' or 'according to Niel,' or 'according to ' Todleben,' but wish it to be understood that I do so in effect by means of this <,enciu,l indication. NOTES TO CHAPTER III. Notk 1. — Investing the place. — This anterior purpose, as first declared by Pelissier, was only what one calls the ' repression ' of the south side of Sebastopol. But he afterwards, as we have seen, insisted that its thorough conquest must be eiiected before resorting to field operations. After forming that last resolve, to which he always in action adhered, he once or twice wrote (incon- sistently) as though the ' repression ' might suffice. Note 2. — With scorn, and with victory. — No one ought to for- get that, in principle, resistance to lawful authority is an evil of formidable magnitude ; but in that grave dilemma with which Pelissier dealt, the alternative was one that would hazard a hun- dred thousand French troops in what, as the wisest men judged, would have been a fantastic campaign, involving perhaps cruel sacrifices, not only of men, but also of warlike honour. See post, Appendix, Note 9 to chap. iv. NOTES TO CHAPTER TV. Note 1. — Destroyed them. — Todleben agrees, vol. ii. p. 280, that out of the Kertch flotilla three vessels were destroyed — viz., i in the text), the Mogoutchy, and the but it might be inferred from i iiage (though I not 8a o in terms) that th id the GoSte