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APPENDIX. NOTES TO CHAPTER I. Note 1. — Outnumbered by tens of thousands. — Including their field-army outside (which could freely either enter or quit the fortress at the will of the commander), the Russians had, at this time, a strength of about 108,000 ; whilst — unless there were counted some 11,000 Turks (whom Canrobert and Lord Raglan had not learnt how to use with effect) — the French and the English together were only about 61,000 strong. Note 2. — On General Bosquet's front. — Of the defensive works on Mount Inkerman, some were constructed by the French, some by the English, and full accounts of them will be found in the French and English Official Narratives, in Niel, p. 150, and in the Journal of the Royal Engineers, p. 50 et seq. For account of the works of countervallation on the French left, see Niel, pp. 98, 99. My reason for avoiding details on these matters is that the works were not destined to be put to the proof by attacks. Note 3. — Only by hundreds. — The average number of workmen kept employed by the French was in November only 693 by day, and 475 by night ; in December only 835 by day, and 628 by night; and in January only 417 by day, and 192 by night. — Niel, pp. 105, 123, 133. The numbers of Englishmen whom our people proved able to keep employed at their works was far, far more scant, as will be seen by the ' Trench Journal ' appended to the Journal of the Royal Engineers, p. 159 et seq. ; and although it is true, as shown by the same Journal, that small bodies of Turks were also employed, these unhappily had suffered so cruelly from privation and hardship as to be unfit for much