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APPENDIX. 3 1 i Note 3. — Respecting Skariatine, see Note in the Appendix. — Skariatine (who had commanded the Selinghinsk Redoubt in February or March, and well knew the ground) was a Lieutenant in the Russian navy, and one of the most gifted of that superb body of men — the men of the Black Sea Fleet — who had gloriously defended Sebastopol in the early, the desperate time. Note 4. — Will attempt a recapture. — When long afterwards he was borne off the field, his bearers trod on one of the ' infernal ' machines,' and the violent explosion that followed is supposed to have produced by concussion a permanent injury of the heart, bringing death very many years afterwards to the distinguished General Armstrong, then holding high office at the Horse Guards. Note 5. — To retake the counter-approaches. — The Captain led five companies, equal, if the battalions had been at their average strength (which, however, was far from being the case), to about 935 men. Note 6. — Had been definitively won. — On the morning of the 7th, Captain Dawson, R.E., was killed; and having been sum- moned to replace him immediately, Wolstley did not have the benefit of the arrangement which had wisely provided that those who were to attack the Quarries in the evening should be exempt from toil during the day, so as to enter fresh upon their work. Whilst speaking of Captain Wolseley, I may mention that for his services in the fights of • the Quarries ' he won twofold praise, — from Colonel Tylden, commanding the Engineers, and from Colonel Shirley, commanding the combatants. NOTES TO CHAPTER VI. Note 1. — Nothing that the Emperor ordered. — PeTissier's method of resistance to his Emperor at the time indicated re- sembled the sustained contumacy of Lord Palmerston, when Foreign Secretary in the Governments of Lord Melbourne and Lord John Russell, as exhibited with great clearness in the Greville Memoirs. Note 2.— 'By orders of the English Government.' — If the Em- peror meant (as he apparently did) that the Kertch Expedition was dictated to the commanders by the English Government, he was mistaken. The measure, as I understand, originated with