Note 16 — LESSONS FROM THE WAR.

In proof that such an impression existed, we may quote an extract from a private letter of our correspondent, Lieutenant-Colonel Hamley, to ourselves, dated Camp, 7th December 1854:—“I think Liprandi’s army might have been not merely routed, but annihilated, any time during the last month till the bad weather set in, having placed itself in a perilous position; and of the two attacks on the fortress the French is, or ought to be, the true one—ours merely auxiliary; but it would be indiscreet to say so. But the campaign once finished, all such subjects will be open to discussion.”—Ed.