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THE BATTLE OE INKEEMAN. CHAPTER I. STATE OF THE SEBASTOPOL CAMPAIGN IN THE BEGINNING OF NOVEMBER 1854.

Approach of the peril incurred by giving the enemey time. If the forces which made good their descent on the Crimea had only at first to encounter the governor of an outlying province, they were still, after all, the invaders of a mighty empire, well by able, in five or six weeks, to bring a great army against them ; and when they accepted the counsels which made their adventure drag on into a lengthened campaign, they prepared for themselves a day of conflict with the gathered strength of the Czar,

That day was now close at hand. Released by the diplomatic errors of the Allies, and by the consequent determination of Austria, from all warlike tasks in the country of the Danube, the enemy's 4th Corps had long been moving round

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