The British Expedition to the Crimea

CHAPTER I.

Causes of the quarrel--Influence of the press--Preparations--Departure from England--Malta--Warnings.

The causes of the last war with Russia, overwhelmed by verbiage, and wrapped up in coatings of protocols and dispatches, at the time are now patent to the world. The independence of Turkey was menaced by the Czar, but France and England would have cared little if Tu...