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SIR,

War Department,

30th September 1856.

I am directed by Lord Panmure to request that you will state to His Royal Highness the General Commanding-in-Chief, that Lord Panmure considers it expedient, while the incidents of the Siege of Sebastopol are still recent, and the Officers who conducted the important operations of the British Royal Artillery and Royal Engineers at that siege are still for the most part within reach, that an official record should be compiled relating all that is of interest or value to those arms of the service, whether for future instruction or as matter of history, a record that will be in some degree similar to those published by Colonel, afterwards Sir J. Jones, of the sieges of the Peninsular War. Lord Panmure apprehends that there will now be no difficulty in collecting these facts, and preserving the experience acquired through them, although a short lapse of time may make it difficult; and I am to request that you will move His Royal Highness to call upon the Inspector-General of Fortifications and the Adjutant-General of Artillery to compile in a narrative form, with statistical Appendix, and with any illustrations required, all those particulars relating to their arm of the service which they deem of professional value, and to embody the same in a Report for his Lordship's information.

JOURNAL

OF THE

OPERATIONS CONDUCTED

BY THE

CORPS OF ROYAL ENGINEERS.

PUBLISHED BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR WAR.

PART I.

From the Invasion of the Crimea to the close of the Winter Campaign 1854-55,

BY

CAPTAIN H. C. ELPHINSTONE, R. E.

of the Topographical Depot.

London:

PRINTED BY GEORGE EDWARD EYRE AND WILLIAM SPOTTISWOODE
Printers to the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty.

1859.

226. l 111..