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Tasha. THE DEATH OF LORD RAGLAN. 297 seen naval officers with their men not only at chap. XTII work, but at work in the enemy's presence. '— The Sardinian army, we know, had been under Feeling of Lord Eaglan's direction ; and the feeling of these man army ; highly valued Allies was expressed by General La Marmora in his Order of the day. Whilst announcing to his troops that there had yester- day died ' the illustrious Commander of the Eng- ' lish Army,' he spoke of the Field-Marshal's long career, the services he had rendered to his country, his ' heroic courage,' and his ' exemplary ' constancy ' in times of trouble, and declared the loss of such a commander to be a 'great calamity.' Omar Pasha showed his feeling towards the andofOmai memory of Lord Eaglan in the way we shall afterwards see. We saw the phrenzy of grief which mastered the p e iissier*s iron Pelissier when he stood in the chamber of General Order death ; and afterwards, but on the same day, he issued this General Order — a paper long admired in the camps for its fervour and power : — 'Army of the East. — No. 15, General Order. 'Death has suddenly taken away while in ' full exercise of his command the Field-Marshal ' Lord Eaglan, and has plunged the British in ' mourning. ' Wo all share the sorrow of our brave Allies. ' Those who knew Lord Eaglan, who know the ' history of his life — so noble, so pure, so replete