. The American encyclopedia of history, biography and travel . ds, and the Highland brigade (42d, 79th, and 93d regiments),arrived at Varna, where a numerous Anglo-French army was already en-camped. It is probable that the unexpected and retrograde movement ofthe Russians upon the Pruth—intelligence of which reached the alliedgenerals about this time—occasioned a deviation from the plan of opera-tions originally contemplated, as it obviated the necessity of any activecooperation with Omer Pachas army on the Danube. An expeditionupon a gigantic scale was, however, planned, its destination being
. The American encyclopedia of history, biography and travel . ds, and the Highland brigade (42d, 79th, and 93d regiments),arrived at Varna, where a numerous Anglo-French army was already en-camped. It is probable that the unexpected and retrograde movement ofthe Russians upon the Pruth—intelligence of which reached the alliedgenerals about this time—occasioned a deviation from the plan of opera-tions originally contemplated, as it obviated the necessity of any activecooperation with Omer Pachas army on the Danube. An expeditionupon a gigantic scale was, however, planned, its destination being theCrimea and Sebastopol. The result of the Baltic operations may be given in few words. Thefleet of the Czar, outnumbered by that of the allied powers, was detainedin captivity at Helsingfors and Kronstadt, declining alike every offer ofbattle, and unable to stay the devastation that was effected along the Fin-nish shore of the Bothnian Gulf. Scarcely a Russian merchant vessel es-caped the vigilance of the cruisers; and the whole line of her coasts, up. w © EH< EH OQ OO
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