The comprehensive history of England : civil and military, religious, intellectual, and social, from the earliest period to the suppression of the Sepoy revolt . fthe arrival of Omar Pacha, and a war councilwhich he held with the Turkish ministers andthe commanders of both armies at Varna, on the18th of May. His earnest advice was that anAnglo-French army should occupy tlie countrybetween Varna and Schumla, so as to keep theRussians in check from Chernavoda to Kostendje,while he was pi-osecuting the war in occupation of Varna was of especial import-ance, as a movement from this p
The comprehensive history of England : civil and military, religious, intellectual, and social, from the earliest period to the suppression of the Sepoy revolt . fthe arrival of Omar Pacha, and a war councilwhich he held with the Turkish ministers andthe commanders of both armies at Varna, on the18th of May. His earnest advice was that anAnglo-French army should occupy tlie countrybetween Varna and Schumla, so as to keep theRussians in check from Chernavoda to Kostendje,while he was pi-osecuting the war in occupation of Varna was of especial import-ance, as a movement from this point could bemade uj^on Schumla and the jaasses of the Balkanwith equal facility, and the whole Russian jilanof invasion frustrated. With similar ease, troopscould Ije sent from Varna to the Crimea, to makean attack upon Sebastopol. His representationsand arguments pi-evailed, seconded as they wereby a visit which Lord Raglan and Marshal made to Pravadi and Schumla, and aninspection of the Turkish army, and accord-ingly the armies of France and England, nowconsiderably reinforced, were transported fromScutari by the Black Sea on the 28th of Omar Pacha.—From a French lithograph. From these land operations we must turnour attention to those which wei-e going on atsea, of which the French and English navies nowheld possession, the ships of war beingshut up in Sebasto|)ol. It was upon this elementthat active hostilities were commenced by theBritish, and the event was nothing less than thebombardment of Odessa. The moving cause ofaction was also as trivial and obscure as everawoke the first echoes of a great war; for it con-sisted in a British ship carrying a flag of truce G94 HISTOKY OF ENGLAND. [Civil and Military. having been fired at, as was alleged, while the gov- This great commercial city, of nearly 80,000 in-ernorof Odessa denied the fact of such a violation, habitants, was defended by a garrison of 30,000But in spite of his denial, the British fel
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