CRIMEAN

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CRIMEAN WAR) in co-operation with a strong French army under Marshal St Arnaud and afterwards, up to May 1855, under Marshal Canrobert. Here the advantage of his training under the. duke of

Wellington

was seen in the soundness of his generalship, and his diplomatic experience stood him in goodstead in dealing with the generals and admirals, British, French and Turkish, who were associated with him. But the trying winter campaign in the Crimea also brought into prominence defects perhaps traceable to his long connexion with the formalities and uniform regulations of military offices in peace time. For the hardships and sufferings of the English soldiers in the terrible Crimean winter before Sevastopol, owing to failure in the commissariat, both as regards food and clothing, Lord Raglan and his staff were at the time severely censured by the press and the government; but, while Lord Raglan was possibly to blame in representing matters in a too sanguine light, it afterwards appeared that the

chief

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

neglect rested with the

home

authorities. But this hopefulness was a shining military quality in the midst of the despondency that settled upon the allied generals after their first failures, and at Balaklava and Inkermann he displayed the promptness and resolution of his youth. He was made a field marshal after Inkermann. During the trying winter of 185455, the suffering he was compelled to

witness

WITNESS
WITNESS (from O. Eng. witan, to know)

, the censures, in

great

GREAT

part unjust, which he had to endure and all the manifold anxieties of the siege seriously undermined his health, and although he found a friend and ardent supporter in his new French colleague, General Pelissier (q.v.), disappointment at the failure of the assault of the 18th of June 1855 finally broke his spirit, and very shortly afterwards, on the 28th of June 1855, he died of dysentery. His

body

BODY

was brought

home

and interred at Badminton.
His elder son having been killed at the battle of Ferozeshah (1845), the title descended to his younger son Richard

Henry

Fitzroy Somerset, 2nd Baron ,Raglan (18171884); and subsequently to the latter's son, George Fitzroy

Henry

Somerset, 3rd baron (b. 1857), under-secretary for war 1900-2, lieutenant-

governor

GOVERNOR (from the Fr. gouverneur, from gouverner, O. Fr. governer, Lat. gubernare, to steer a ship, to direct, guide)

of the Isle of Man (1902) and a prominent militia officer.

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