CHAPTER VI.

THE REIGN OF VICTORIA (_continued_).

State of the Army--Food, Clothing, and Shelter--Absence of a Road--Want of Transport--Numbers of the Sick--State of the Hospitals--Miss Nightingale--Mr. Roebuck's Committee--Military Operations--The French Mistake--Improvement of the Situation--Arrival of General Niel--Attack upon the Malakoff Hill approved--The Russian Redoubt constructed--Death of Nicholas--Todleben's Counter-Approaches--Raglan and Canrobert disagree--The second Bombardment--Egerton's Pit--Night Attack of General de Salles--The Emperor's Interference--Canrobert's Indecision--The Kertch Project--Arrival of the Sardinian Contingent--The Emperor's Visit to Windsor--The Emperor's Plan of Campaign--It is rejected by Raglan and Omar--Resignation of Canrobert 80