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CONTENTS. Chapter IV. — continued. These compared with the acts of the authorities professing defiance, ...... Operations at Genitchi, 29th May, . 1st to 3d June. Operations at Taganrog and the mouths of the Don, ...... The good seamanship manifested by the French and the I 5th June. Operations at Marionpol. Operations at Gheisk, 6th June, 9th June. Operations on the shore of Kiten Bay, Losses of the Russians, ..... Of the Allies, Causes of their immunity, .... The object of the Allies, .... Thi.s in great measure baffled, ..... Greatness of the havoc, .... . . Many of the destroyed vessels Greek, .... The bearing of this circumstance on the Czar's sense of di jnitj The moral stress put on Russia by taking the Sea of Azof Did the Czar's incapacity to defend his subjects tend at all to shake their old loyalty ? . . . . III. Attack on Soudjak-Kale" and Anapa recommended, Troops despatched for the purpose, Fall of Soudjak-Kale", .... Desire to attack Anapa, . This forbidden by Louis Napoleon, PeTissier's determined resistance to the prohibition, Lord Raglan's censure on the French Emperor, Fall of Anapa, ....... The enemy's forced abandonment i >f the whole Circassian coast Troops left to guard the Straits, The rest brought back, .... IV. A contrast, ......•• General results of the Kertch expedition, These not attained by surprise, Nor (in the main) by defaults of Russian commanders, The phenomenon (so far*) left unexplained,