This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1856 Excerpt: ... laid the foundation for many a fatal disorder. The tents reached them gradually on the plateau in front of Sebastopol; but these tents, too few in number, and often defective in quality, became wretched domiciles even beforo the rains and tempests of November began: what they became afterwards, experience too ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1856 Excerpt: ... laid the foundation for many a fatal disorder. The tents reached them gradually on the plateau in front of Sebastopol; but these tents, too few in number, and often defective in quality, became wretched domiciles even beforo the rains and tempests of November began: what they became afterwards, experience too painfully manifested. The French began to render their tented homes comfortable long before their allies had any materials for so doing; and shortly after the November storm, many of them ingeniously constructed residences partially underground--that is, they dug shallow pits, and thatched them over with twigs and branches. The British could not have adopted this plan, even if they had possessed the ingenuity so to apply their hands, for the ground on the part of the plateau occupied by them was too hard: they were dependent, in the first instance, on no other covering than that of the blue vault above them; then upon tents admitting the rain-water as through a sieve; and then, after a long interval, upon wooden huts. But here at once arose a difficulty lamentable and vexatious: the timber was near at hand, but means were wanting for conveyance up to the camp. After tho hurricane, the shores were strewn with tho remains of wrecked ships, available in many cases for hut-building; and towards the close of the month, supplies of prepared timber arrived; but in the one case as in the other, the deficiency of beasts of burden rendered it a work of enormous difficulty to transport the timbers to the necessary spots. A wintering in the Crimea not having entered into the original plans or suppositions of the Allied governments, tho provision of huts in sufficient time became a matter of utter impossibility; but the British, more in arrear in this as in most o...
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