rovinces of Turkey, and invited the Greeks of independent Greece to
invade the sultan's territory. The troops of the padishaw suppressed
revolt with sanguinary effect, and drove the Greek sympathizers across
the borders. The allied fleets landed detachments of troops in Greece,
and compelled neutrality.

At last the period arrived for the decisive movement of the allied
armies, and it was resolved to invade the territory of Russia, and
destroy her great naval and military arsenals on the Black Sea. For this
purpose the troops were embarked at Varna and other places, and escorted
by the fleets to the Crimea. A landing was effected at Old Fort without
opposition. The allies began their march towards Sebastopol, skirmishing
as they proceeded. Eupatoria, a port and city in the Crimea, was also
seized by the allies, and put in a state of defence on the land side,
so as to be held by a garrison against any army likely to be sent to
recover it.

The armies, arriving at the river Alma, found the heights which
commanded its passage occupied by the enemy in great force. A battle
ensued; the first of the war in which the British and French were
engaged together. The allies were successful. The Russians were
completely defeated; and had the French consented to pursue them, it
is possible that the Russian army might have been cut off. The British
distinguished themselves greatly at the battle of the Alma. The second
division, under the chivalrous Sir De Lacy Evans, bore the brunt of
the combat on the British lines. His division was ably assisted by Sir
Richard England, who was left in support, and without orders from his
chief. He, with his guns, hastened to the aid of Sir De Lacy Evans, and
distinguished himself by his courage, promptitude, and presence of
mind. The Duke of Cambridge commanded the first division, with Sir Colin
Campbell as his senior brigadier. His royal highness displayed in this,
his maiden battle, the skill and courage for which all who had served
under him had given him credit, and which he was destined to evince
still more signally on the bloody slopes of Inkerman.

The allies, in consequence of the want of carriage and other appliances
of a campaign, lingered for days on the site of their victory before
they resumed their march against the great citadel. On arriving at
the north side, it was deemed by the allied commanders desirable and
feasible to effect a flank march to the south side. Curiously, at the