The Invasion of the Crimea; Its Origin, and an Account of Its Progress Down to the Death of Lord Raglan Volume 1-2 - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1863 edition. Excerpt: ...for the alarm which seems to have been the cause of his inaction. For, regarded in connection with the state of isolation in which the plotters still remained, the insurrection, feeble as it was, became a source of grave danger to the General in command of the troops. It would have been no new thing to have to act against insurgents in vindication of the law, and under the orders of what had been commonly called a "Govcrnment;" but this time the law was on the side of the insurgents, and the knot of men who had got the control of the offices of the State were not so cireumstanced in point of repute as to be able to make up for the want of legal authority by the weight of their personal character. Therefore it was natural for Magnan, notwithstanding his cherished order from the Minister of War, to think a good deal of what might happen to him, if perchance, at the very moment when he was taking upon his hands the blood of the Parisians, the plot of which he was the instrument should after all break down for want of support from men known and honoured as Statesmen. But at length perhaps it was effectually explained to Magnan that he must stand or fall with those to whom he was now committed, and that although he thought to keep himself under the shelter of the C)I(irI§;P"order of the Minister of War," the testimony of ' any one out of the twenty Generals who met him on the 27th of November would suffice to bring him into nearly the same plight as any of the avowed plotters. A judicious application of this kind of torture would make it unnecessary for Colonel Fleury to show even the hilt of his pistol. At all events, Magnan now at last consented to act against the insurrection. He had thrown away the whole of the...

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