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CONTENTS. XX 111 CHAPTER XI. CONTINUING SIEGE OPERATIONS. The French sapping more closely up to the works in the Kara- belnaya, ......•••• 270 And preparing to establish new batteries on ground command- ing the Roadstead, ........ 270 The English strengthening their hold of ground captured by Eyre, 270 And afterwards handing it over to the charge of the French, . 271 Continuance of the mining and counter-mining operations, . 271 The moral effect attributed by the Russians to their vigorous counter- mining, . . ....... 272 CHAPTER XII. LORD RAGLAN'S INSISTENCE ON CHANGES IN THE PLAN OF THE SIEGE. Memorandum of the 21st of June, 274 Sent to the French Headquarters, 274 Objections to plans involving attacks on the Great Redan, . 275 More especially if the Flagstaff Bastion were not to be also assailed, .......... 276 Assaults on the Redan from a distance out of harmony with the new French design, 276 Words from Lord Raglan showing the course he meant to take, 277 The Conference of the 24th held, 277 Two of the subjects known to have been there brought forward, 277 The grounds for anxiety they must have seemingly given, . 27S What passed at the Conference ? 278 Abrupt ceasing of the light shed till now by Lord Raglan's de- spatches, 279 The position of England in conference of an anxious kind with the Chief of 100,000 men, 279 Signs that Lord Raglan was prevailing, 279 Niel's Note of the 26th of June, 280 The real conclusion deducible from Niel's answer of the 26th of June, 281 Continuance for some days of the better siege prospects opened to our army, .......... 281