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 312 APPENDIX. Lyons, and had been warmly supported by Lord Raglan, before the London Government took any part in it. Note 3. — Might be well carried into effect. — There were many ages in the plan of an attack from Eupatoria directed against the rear of the enemy's field-army : — 1. Eupatoria was a seaport town, and operations thence pro- could and would be supported in many ways by the power of the Allied X; 2. The town was already held by Omar Pasha with an Otto- man Army -which for months had successfully defied the enemy, and might advance in due order from its base, confronting of course the fair perils of war, but without plunging into ' adven- ' tures. ' 3. The attack might be made without drawing any great body of infantry from before Sebastopol, Omar Pasha indeed declaring that he required no aid at all from the infantry arm. 4. What he mainly required was the assistance of cavalry, and that was a species of force winch — because not in use for siege purposes — could be easily spared by the Allies confronting Sebastopol. o. Eupatoria had already been linked to the French and English camps on the Chersonese by the submarine telegraph, and by means of that powerful aid the movements of the field army advancing from the seaport town could be made to take place in close concert with the operations of the besiegers. 6. With the aid of the cavalry that could be easily spared from before Sebastopol, any defeat sustained by Omar Pasha might be made to result in an orderly retreat upon his fortified base ; and there was no apparent reason why even misfortune, if visiting this kind of attack, would be likely to result in disaster. Note 4. — Of all (he projected assaults. — The 'omission' was this : — I'., qui t had retained in his own hands a plan of the Malakoff which had teen found in the pocket of a slain Russian officer in- stead of forwarding it at once to headquarters. Pelissier did not it himself with a single remonstrance, but followed it up by another expressed in strong angry language. Note 5. — Confined to only a few score of men.— For want of separated returns I am prevented from giving the exact numbers, but, although nut precise, the statement in the text is well based.