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152 TKANSACriOi4S lish armies. CHAPTER XII. CHAP. When it had been resolved that the Fi'euch ' and the English forces already despatched to the n.am'iers'of East should Lc raiscd to a strength which might and theEng- enable them to be more than auxiliary to the defence of the Turkish dominions, the Erench Emperor named an officer to the command of his army in the field, and the General wlio was to have charge of the Queen's land-forces had already been chosen. It seems right for me now to say something of these two commanders ; and, the better to make each of them known, I am will- ing to speak of some of the transactions which brought them together between the time of their meeting in Paris and the day when they received their instructions for the invasion of the Crimea. Marshal Tlic ofliccr entrusted with the command of the French Army in the East was a INIarslial of France, and was the person before spoken of who liad changed his name from Le Eoy to 'St • Arnaud,' and from James to 'Achilles.' He impersonated with singular exactness the idea which our forefathers had in their minds wlien tit Arnaud.