Note 169 — Chapter VII · 1854-1856. THE WAR IN THE CRIMEA.
Reading edition
The influence of Napoleon III.’s personal ambition on the conduct of the siege and the effect of the rivalries of his Generals are well described in Hamley’s ‘Crimea,’ wherein the student may learn how difficult, if not impossible, it is for the chiefs of two allied powers, engaged in the same operation of war, to see eye to eye, even on the most important occasions.