416 APPENDIX, Enclosure accompanying Mr Kinglahes Lciter. INVASION OF THE CRIMEA. THE PLACING OF THE BUOY BY THE FRENCH IN THE NIGHT BETWEEN THE 13th AND 14tii OF SEPTEMBER 1851. Captain Mends having stated (in a letter which ho thought proper to address to the Editor of a newspaper) that he remembers nothing about a buoy, it may be con- venient for readers of the book which was the subject of Captain ]Iends's remarks to have before them the words in Avhich Lord Raglan described the transaction. Extract from Lord Eaglan's Narrative of the Landing, addressed as a Private Communication to the Duke of N'ewcastee, the Secretary of War, and dated ' Camp ' above Old Fort Bay, September 18, 1854.' ' The disembarkation of both armies commoneod on the
- morning of the 14ih.
' It had been settled that the landing should be effected
- in Old Fort Bay, and that a buoy should be placed in
- the centre of it to mark the left of the French and the
' right of the English ; but when ilie Agamemnon came ' upon the buoy at daylight. Sir Edmund Lyons found ' that the French naval officer had deposited it on the ex- ' treine northern end, and had thus engrossed i,he whole of
- 1.1 le bay for the operation of his own army. This occa-
' .sioned considerable confusion and delay, the English ' i-onvoy having followed closely upon the steps of their ' leader, and got mixed with the French transports; but ' Sir Edmund Lyons wisely resolved to make the best of ' it, and at once ordered the troops to land in the bay next < to the northward.'
