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CONTENTS OF VOLUME VI.
CHAPTER I.
DETERMINATION OF THE ALLIES TO WINTER ON THE CHERSONESE HEIGHTS
-THE IMPORT OF THIS RESOLVE AS REGARDED THE HEALTH AND
His final orders to make provision for wintering in the Crimea,
2
Danger of a winter on the Chersonese to the health of the Allied
armies,
Their straitened position,
3
Their consequent want of power to appropriate the resources of the
country, .
These resources entirely at the command of the enemy,
The Allied armies wholly dependent upon supplies brought by sea,
And consequently upon the exertion of others,
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CHAPTER II.
THE WAR ADMINISTRATION OF FRANCE.
The French system of war administration,
CHAPTER III.
THE WAR ADMINISTRATION OF ENGLAND.
I.
The English system of military administration as existing before the
CHAPTER III.-continued.
II.
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Causes which prevented England from having a real War Depart-
ment,
15
III.
The Horse Guards,
23
Standing compromise between the Horse Guards and the 'Govern-
'ment,'
Quaint expedient of the Letter of Service,
General effect of the standing compromise,
The Ordnance,
31
28
29
30
The Victualling and the Transport sub-departments of the Ad-
miralty, .
32
The Army Medical service,
The Commissariat,
36
Sir Charles Trevelyan's rapid creation of a Commissariat force for
foreign service,
37
Duties, powers, and status of a Commissariat force administering to
an English army in the field,
39
The old army offices without experience derived from recent cam-
paigns,
General readiness of the old army offices to act under his guidance,
Want of official machinery at the disposal of the Duke of Newcastle,
His capacity as a war administrator,
The way in which the offices sought to perform the tasks of war
administration, .
46
The way in which our dispersed system of war administration proved
baneful, .
51
VI.
England's practice of forgoing the aid of her Indian officers and
CHAPTER IV.
A RETROSPECTIVE ENQUIRY.
Our system of War administration at the time of the great conflict
with France,
How the system 'worked' during the first seventeen years of the
war,
55
58
Circumstances under which the creation of the third new adminis-
That the 'State' could undertake improvement of the War adminis-
tration, .
79
Dundas's measure,
80
Creating the third of the three new administrative forces,'
Colonel Bunbury,
81
His office in some respects made to serve as a War Department,
The business of War administration thus (however imperfectly)
compassed,
Means by which England brought the war to a glorious end,
Value of the experience she had gained,
And of the inchoate War Department which had ministered to
Wellington's armies,
83
IV.
1816. The third of the three war administrative forces wilfully
The pettiness of the advantage secured by the Crown at the cost of
grievous harm to the country,
86
Blame justly attaching upon the Prince Regent and the Ministers, .
88
THE WAY IN WHICH FRANCE AND ENGLAND MINISTERED TO THEIR
ARMIES IN THE EAST.
Conditions under which the supply of the Allied armies proceeded,
The phases of the Eastern campaign in their bearing upon the ques
tion of supply, .
The general plan of the arrangements by which France and Eng-
land at first undertook to supply their armies in the East,
Change of measures to which they were subsequently driven,
The magnitude of their task,
Undue reliance upon the resources afforded by commerce,
Difficulty of promptly acquiring by purchase all the needed supplies,
Insufficiency of merchant-vessels, and more especially of steamers,
Confusion in the Bosphorus,
97
98
99
100
The flow of supplies to the seat of war not at once and completely
effected,
Insufficiency of the steam-power, in its bearing upon the supply of
fresh meat and vegetables,
102
Extreme narrowness of the communication through Balaclava,
Construction of wharves at Balaclava,
104
105
Question of 'metalling' a road after the 17th of October,
Lord Raglan's measures with respect to the road by the Col,
Vain efforts made to 'metal' it,
111
114
115
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