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Excerpt from Pictorial History of the Russian War, 1854-5-6: With Maps, Plans, and Wood Engravings The Author of the present volume has endeavoured so to avail himself of all the above-mentioned resources - augmented and in some instances corrected by private comm unications - as to present a truthful picture of that short, but fearful and extraordinary war. While estimating the contest conscientiously as a whole, in its national and international aspects, he has endeavoured to be - so far as such a character is possible - eu impartial spectator; and while seeking to trace events up to their causes, to deduce the probable consequences, or to disentangle perplexities, he has deemed it a duty to observe caution in passing judgment on the actors in those scenes - j udgment which cannot fairly be pronounced until angry controversies have been smoothed away by lapse of time, or on transactions hitherto obscure. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.