APPENDIX. 481 Lord Eaglan declare his opinion. Will Sir John Burgoyne say that, with no Ijetter support than that, I ought to have disregarded the proofs 1 The three last paragraphs of the letter relate to a period which luy narrative has not yet reached ; and I might nov/ bring my reply to a close ; but I wish to add that, whilst desiring, as I own I did, to show in my third volume* the real strength of the arguments that could fairly be urged agamst two of Sir John Burgoyne's most important con- clusions, I was far indeed from wishing to depreciate. Where I could, I eagerly seized the occasion of tracing back an advantageous result to his special design. ' The
- state,' it was thus I wrote — ' the state to which the
- liedan had been brought on the afternoon of this 17th
' of October was a singularly exact fulfilment of Burgoyne's design. ... At a few minutes after three o'clock in
- the afternoon, the Eedan lay before him in that very state
' to which he had sought to reduce it.' f —Added to Ap- pendix in 2d Edition. NOTE VII. Extracts showing that in I^ovember 1854, both the French and English Engineers came back, after ALL, TO * enterprise ' AS OFFERING THE BEST MEANS OP EXTRICATION. In a memorandum before me in the handwriting of Sir John Burgoyne he says : • In the present state of affairs ' of the Allied armies before Sebastopol some decided ' measure of progress must be immediately adopted, either
- In this, the 4th, volume of the present Edition.
+ Ante, chap. xiii. sec. iii. of this Edition. VOL. IV. 2 H
