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Excerpt from The Conduct of the War: A Speech Delivered in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 12th of December, 1854
Let me here say that in every step we took at home or abroad, through our minsters here, through our generals there, we acted in concert with our allies (hear, hear), whose good faith in council has been as signal as their gallantry in the field; and when I speak of instructions given or intentions entertained, I speak of intentions entertained and instructions given, not by the English Government alone, but by the allied Governments acting in strict concert together. Well, at the time this army was sent to occupy a portion of the Turkish territory, we had a large ?eet in the Black Sea. There was then a very powerful Russian army occu pying the. Danubian Principalities. There had been but few contests then between the Turkish and the Russian forces, and the strength of the Russian army had not been broken by disease and the deficiency of their commissariat. Those who had the best means of forming a military Opinion in this matter had not then very great confidence in the power of the Turkish army to resist the attacks which the Russians might direct against it, and thought - and, I believe, justly thought - that in the then aspect of affairs there was danger that a bold stroke might be made against the Turkish capital, and that the Bosphorus might fall into the hands of the Emperor of Russia. I am not now speaking of things that were probable, but in war you must also look to things that are possible, and guard against them. There was also the possibility that if the Turks failed to resist successfully the attacks on their position at vviddin and Kalafat, the Balkan mightbe turned, or that the Russians might, without crossing the Balkan range, go to the right of it, and advance down on Constantinople, and that the capital would in that way have been endangered.
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