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 398 APPENDIX. ' service,' it does not seem very strange that a word taken from that phrase should be used in framing an appellation made ap- plicable to each of the documents ; nor indeed as a matter of language can it well be considered anomalous that, as the cover- ing for a right hand and the covering for a left hand form together a pair, and are together called 'gloves,' so the two nearly simul- taneous missives should be conunonly linked in speech, and called the ' Letters of Service. ' At all events, custom so mediates between the two ofFices, con- ceding to each a full right to call the paper it issued a ' Letter of ' Service,' and rejecting the claim of either to monopolise the use of the name. NOTES TO CHAPTER L Note 1. — I say ' his ' [the French Commander's] ' thrice inter- ' rupted design ' because, though our people were to co-operate to the best of their power. General Canrobert's assault of the Flag- staff Bastion — at that time ripe for attack — was to have been the main feature of the then contemplated enterprise against the place. — ' Invasion of the Crimea,' vol. vi. of Cabinet Edition, p. 489 et seq. Of course, under such circumstances, it virtually rested with Canrobert to say whether the enterprise in which his troops were to take the most important part should or should not be delayed; but it must be remembered that the delay he sug- gested — the ' atermoiement,' as he so oddly called it — was for- mally and unanimously sanctioned by an Anglo-French council of war. — Ibid., p. 490. The ' difficulties' to which Canrobert called attention, when he came to Lord Raglan on the morrow of the battle, were ' the losses we had suffered the previous day,' and ' the large force the enemy had displayed ' (Lord Raglan to Duke of Newcastle, Private Letter, 8th November 1854); and it is accordingly plain, as stated in the text, that Canrobert drew from ' Inkerman ' his reason for delaying the assault. For proof that one of the enemy's main objects in undertaking the battle of Inkerman was to avert the assault of the Flagstaff Bastion, see ibid., pp. 5, 0. Note 2. — ' Invasion of the Crimea,' vol. iv. of Cabinet h>dition, pp. 450, 451 ; and see ibid., p. 210. Note 3. — Statement made by Mr Filder to the Chelsea Board, p. 358. Note 4. — The dandelion weed was found, and advantageously used by the French, but rather as medicine than 'food.' Out