122 CAUSES INVOLVING FKANCK AND ENGLAND CHAP, entering into the desolate region of the Dobriulja, X. began the invasion of Turkey.* Treaty be- Nearly at the same time France and England twcen the . • i i n i i • i suiunand entered into a treaty with the bultan, by which the Western ' *^ Powers. they engaged to defend Turkey with their arms until the conclusion of a peace guaranteeing the independence of the Ottoman Empire and the rights of the Sultan, and upon the close of the war to withdraw all their forces from the Ottoman territory. The Sultan, on his part, undertook to make no separate peace or armistice with Eussia.f Treaty On the lOtli of April 1854 there was signed France and that treat)'" of alliance between Erance and Eng- land which many men had suffered themselves to look upon as a security for the peace of Europe. The high contracting parties engaged to do what lay in their power for the re-establishment of a peace which should secure Europe against the return of the existing troubles; and in order to set free the Sultan's dominions, they promised to use all the land and sea forces required for the purpose. They engaged to receive no overture tending to the cessation of hostilities, and to enter into no engagement with the Russian Court, without having deliberated in common. They renounced all aim at separate advantages, and
- 24th March. liy thus jiassincj that part ol" the river which
encloses the Dohrudja, a geiuTal docs }iot efi'cct much. Ho must cross it at and above Kassova licfoie he can W fluid, in the military sense, to have ' broken through the line of the Danube.' t 10th of iMarch.
