238 THE OPKNIXG OF TUF STEGP:. CHAP, flnv's cannonado ; luit then tluit coiisnniiition of . lime was the very sacrifice they could least afford — the very one which, in every battery and every cliurcli of Sebastopol, the devout Russian ]')ray(Hl they might make. Aifij,'iven Froui ou board the Allied tickets large bodies bv the 1 1 T 1 1 ^ Allied neets. of men were landed; and they were ordered or rather permitted, for the men were burning with zeal — to take part in the active operations against Sebastopol. The brigade of English seamen thus placed at Lord Eaglan's disposal was under the orders of Captain Lushington ; and Captain Peel besides undertook to arm and man a battery with guns and men from the Diamond. Moro- over, large quantities of the armament and other material resources of the fleets were freely de- voted to the same purpose. Numbers of ships' guns of heavy metal were taken from the decks of the men-of-war, and afterwards dragged up to camp by the bodily power of the sailors.* In the eyes of those who have witnessed the contrast as shown and developed by the business of war, it seems hardly short of a wonder that the same nation should be able to send out, to toil and fight for her cause, two bodies of men, each Distinguish- so dcvotcd, cacli so excellent, vet parted the one iiig cliarac- i n i' loristicsof from the other by a breadth so great as that the sailor ,..,.., , , . as compared which dividcs our soldiers from our sailors. It with the soldier. is truc tluit tlic soldicr engaged in campaigning is too often in a lower state of health than that
- For details of the assistiince in men and material wliirh our
Kav}' affordecl, see Appendix.
