TROUBLED COUNSELS. 227 officers of the allied armies), the three com- chap. . VIII manders met in conference determined that the 1 contemplated assault should be delayed for some ^bertand days (not saying how many), in order to give J^f Rag " time for the construction of certain additional works ; and they also put off their decision re- specting what should be done against the Kamt- chatka Lunette as well as against the place generally ; but they agreed that an attack in one quarter should be made by a joint use of forces, French, English, and Ottoman. They re- solved that, upon orders to that effect being given, the White Eedoubts should be seized by troops to be drawn for the purpose from each of the three allied armies* Three days afterwards, however, Lord Eaglan, butaban- i • -i • i • ii n t doned three when reminding his colleague of the agreement, daysafter- & fo & wards by found Canrobert appearing to think that the canrobert. capture of those works, after all, 'would not be ' attended with any important advantage ' ; t and accordingly the project was dropped. On the 17th of April — the morrow of a day 17th April. when the Flagstaff Bastion had been brought to Niei to the p • i -H.T- t Empercr. a state of miserable wreck — JNiel wrote direct to the Emperor : — ' Sire, our artillery has not ob- 1 tained great results. Every morning the Place ' resumes its fire, and each embrasure has its gun ' in a state for firing. The English little fright-
- Lord Raglan to Secretary of State, Secret, April 17, 1855.
t This was on the 19th. Lord Raglan to Secretary of State Secret, 21st April 1855.
