The Banner of Battle

by Alan Palmer

  [520] Queen Victoria to Clarendon, 28 January 1856, QVL, III, p. 168.

  [521] Curtiss, op. cit., pp. 499-500; Mosse, op. cit., pp. 27-30; Tatischev, op. cit., pp. 186-7.

  [522] History of The Times, II, p. 191.

  [523] Panmure to Codrington, 28 January and 8 February 1856, Pan. Pap., II, pp. 81 and 99.

  [524] Rich, Why the Crimean War?, pp. 180-1.

  [525] Cal. Lett., II, pp. 434-5.

  [526] Bentley, Russell’s Despatches, pp. 275-6.

  [527] Baumgart, Peace of Paris, pp. 134-7.

  [528] Queen Victoria to Clarendon, 7 February 1856, QVL, III, p. 170; TG, p.158.

  [529] Persigny to Walewski, 12 February 1856, Di Nolfo, Europa e Italia, p. 482; Palmerston to Clarendon, I, February 1856, Clar. MSS. Dep. C49.

  [530] Lady Clarendon to Lady T. Lewis, 18 February 1856, Bod. Lib. MSS. Eng. hist. C 1034.

  [531] Palmerston to Clarendon, 26 September 1855, Add. MSS. 48579, and 25 February 1856, Add. MSS. 48580.

  [532] Nesselrode to Orlov, in February 1856, Bessmernaja, ‘K Istorii Pariskogo Mira 1856g’, KA, 75 (1936), p. 16.

  [533] Clarendon to Stratford de Redcliffe, 25 April 1856, Lane-Poole, Stratford Canning, II, p. 436.

  [534] Same to the same, 22 March 1856, Ibid, p. 435; Rich, Why the Crimean War? pp. 172 and 186.

  [535] Palmerston to Clarendon, 28 February 1856, Add. MSS. 48580; Clarendon to Palmerston, 29 February 1856, Maxwell, Clarendon, II, p. 116.

  [536] Orlov to Nesselrode, 2 March 1856, Bessmernaja article already cited, KA, 75, pp. 27-30.

  [537] Baumgart, op. cit., pp. 113-16.

  [538] Ibid, p. 130.

  [539] M. S. Anderson, The Eastern Question, pp. 156-7.

  [540] Baumgart, op. cit., p. 140; Palmerston to Clarendon, 7 March 1856, Add. MSS. 48580.

  [541] Palmerston to Clarendon, 25 and 27 February and 7, 8, 9 and in March 1856, Add. MSS. 48580.

  [542] Clarendon to Palmerston, 8 April 1856, Di Nolfo, Europa e Italia, p. 508; Mack Smith, Cavour, pp. 8892.

  [543] Codrington to Panmure, 5 April 1856, Pan. Pap., II, p. 19n; Rose Journal, 2 and 5 April 1856, Add. MSS. 42838.

  [544] Codrington to Panmure, 15 April 1856, Pan. Pap., II, p. 92; Cliff. Lett., pp. 277-82.

  [545] Dodd, Pictorial Mist., p. 510.

  [546] Palmerston to Clarendon, 30 March 1856, Clar. MSS. Dep. C49.

  [547] Codrington to Panmure, 1 April 1856, Pan. Pap., II, p. 178.

  [548] Palmerston to Panmure, 30 March 1856, ibid, p. 172.

  [549] Correspondence, Ibid, pp. 226, 234, 269.

  [550] Panmure, H. of Lords, 8 May 1856, Hansard, 142, p. 187.

  [551] De la Gorce, Histoire...Second Empire, I, pp. 413-14 and 472.

  [552] Curtiss, Russia’s Crimean War, p. 471.

  [553] Mosse, The Rise and Fall of the Crimean System, pp. 2-5.

  [554] F. Duberly to S. Marx, 12 May 1856, Add. MSS. 47218B; Tisdall, Mrs Duberly’s Campaigns, pp. 164-8.

  [555] The Times, 26, 27 and 29 June 1857; correspondence, Pan. Pap., II, pp. 37, 46, 50, 66, 81, 217, 274-5, 354, 390-1; Thomas, Charge! Hurrah! Hurrah!, p. 283.

  [556] Queen Victoria to king Leopold, 6 May 1856, QVL, III, pp. 189-90.

  [557] Lister Journal, 8 and 14 August 1856, Bod. Lib. MSS. Eng. hist. d 483.

  [558] For much of this paragraph see Mosse, Rise and Fall of Crimean System, especially pp. 33 and 105-26.

  [559] A. Buchanan to Lord Granville, 16 November 1870, FO 65/805/466.

  [560] H. Rumbold to Lord Granville; 19 March 1871, FO 65/820/28; Mosse, op. cit., pp. 160-82.

  [561] Sumner, Russia and the Balkans, p. 238; Palmer, Chancelleries of Europe, pp. 153-8.

  [562] See Wolseley, Lord, A Soldier’s Life, Vol. 1, which includes interesting first impressions and an account of the struggles for the Redan.

  [563] Richardson, Nurse Sarah Anne, pp. 165-9.

  [564] Seacole, The Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in many lands (ed. Alexander and Dewjee), pp. 31-40.

  [565] Tisdall, Mrs Duberly’s Campaigns, pp. 171-215.

  [566] R. E. B. Crompton, Reminiscences, pp. 11-12.

  [567] TG, p. 11; J. Colledge Ships of the Royal Navy, I, p. 267.

  [568] Moran, Winston Churchill: The Struggle for Survival, p. 234.

  [569] Young, Victorian England, Portrait of an Age, p. 80; Guedalla, The Two Marshals, p. 67.

  [570] These points are developed in more detail in Palmer, op. cit., pp. 111-142. See also Morley, Life of Gladstone, I, pp. 550-1.