The Crimean Commission and the Chelsea Board: Being a Review of the Proceedings and Report of the BoardHarrison, 1857 - 189 páginas |
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The Crimean Commission and the Chelsea Board: Being a Review of the ... Sir Alexander Tulloch Visualização completa - 1857 |
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Página 9 - When the supply began to fail the Commissariat officer referred to, who appears to have done everything in his power to meet the difficulties of the case, proposed, as he knew there was plenty of barley at Balaklava, that if a detachment of the horses were allowed to go down daily, he would engage to bring up enough for the rest of the brigade. This proposition appears to have been brought specially under the notice of Lord Cardigan by Lieutenant-Colonel...
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