FOR GIVING UP THE COMMAND. 299 paring the execution of the Emperor's plan — an chap, execution rendered nearly impossible (according ' to his account) by the non-co-operation of the English commander. 4. The very false position in which he had been placed with the English by his sudden recall of the Kertch Expedition. 5. The exceptionally great fatigues moral and physical which he had never for an instant ceased to be undergoing for the last nine months.* With respect to the first of the reasons adduced, we have seen that General Canrobert was in error; for over and over again the French and English batteries brought to ruin the works they assailed.t With respect to the second of the reasons, we saw much of the cruel anxiety suffered by General Canrobert from an opposite cause — that is, from the not irrational and not therefore unwarlike dread of being brought to battle in an execrable position.! He afterwards, as we have seen, represented himself to be longing for another Inkerman, but on what grounds I do not know. With respect to the third of the reasons, we have seen that a main foundation of the Emperor's plan was his proposal to obtain the services of Lord Eaglan and his army in the field by causing Canrobert to relieve him and them from all their
- To the Emperor, 19th May 1855. Quoted, Rousset, vol.
ii. p. 180. f See ante, the last sixteen pages of chap. vi. $ See ante, chap. iv.
