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 V. ON THE SEBASTOPOL FRONT. 63 after all very scant, but that was a circumstance chap. owing to Lord Kaglan's sheer want of numbers, and not in any degree to efforts made by the enemy. It was well for England and France that the military authority exercised within the lines of Sebastopol had by this time returned to its nor- mal state, and superseded that brilliant dictator- ship which began the defence of the fortress ; for if Colonel de Todleben had still been there in full power, he would hardly have stood acqui- escent by the ramparts of the Karabel Faubourg whilst our siege-troops were leaving their camps, and marching across liis front to succour their comrades at lukerman. VI. Upon the whole, it results that the enemy General obtained no substantially fruitful services from enemy's that vast number of troops to which his auxiliary operaUom measures were entrusted ; for, although the Allies stood extended before him upon a front of some 20 miles without having any reserves that could be marched from a centre, he failed to make them expiate their fault, and suffered them to reinforce their endangered post by moving troops with great freedom along the circumference of their position.