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APPENDIX. 483 NOTE VIIL Extract of Eetur^j to the Admiralty showing the number op men and the quantity op material landed PROM THE English Fleet to aid the Land Forces in THE siege of SeBASTOPOL DOWN TO 28tII OF OCTOBER. Officers and seamen, 1786. Officers and marines (besides 400 more landed at Eupatoria), 1530. 6 68-pounders, with 400 rounds for eacli gun. 50 32-pou'iders, with 150 rounds of shot and 30 of shell for each gun. 9 24-pound howitzers, ) •,, „„ , ,. •,. ' , , . ' > with /O rounds ot ammunition. 9 12-{(0und howitzers, ) 1300 8-ineh shells. 8000 8-inch cartridges. 680 24-pounder rockets. 770 8-inch cargasses. Timbers and planks collected from different points for platforms. NOTE IX. General db Todleben's Explanations op Prince Ment- schikoff's Eeasons for his Flank March. Voyons par quelles raisons le Prince Menchikow avait et6 d^termin^ k entreprendre une marche de llanc sur Bakhtchisarai. Apr^s roccupation du Belbeck par les Allies et leiir carapement en vue des fortifications du cote Nord, la situa- tion du Prince Mencliikow t^tait devenue fort critiq^ue, Les ouvrages du cot6 isTord se trouvaient — dans lo cas d'uno attaque dirigee centre eux par les Allies — r^duits h leurs propres forces, et ces forces, en comparaison de celles