GO THE RENEWED EXPEDITION TO KEETCH. CHAP. Whether brought to its destination or not. the IV ' letter remained unanswered. It would be miserable to have to believe that any English commander proved deaf to such an appeal; and this all the more since we know that the Prussians were habitually treating our pris- oners of war in their hospitals with careful and generous kindness.* When, as shown in an earlier page, the Gen- eral and the Admirals met at the entrance of the Azof, they already had achieved no small part of their appointed task. First re- The first Q-ains that accrued to the Allies from raits of the . ° . . _ Kertchox- their newly acquired dominion m the Ivertclnne pedition. . J x Peninsula were : — 1. The capture of all the enemy's Coast bat- teries in the neighbourhood of the Straits, and of the G2 guns which had armed them — guns throw- ing a weight of metal which reached in one salvo to 2376 pounds.! 2. The capture of guns not in battery, amount- ing with the G2 above mentioned to upwards of one hundred, many of them of the largest calibre and of the best construction.:): 3. The ruin of the squadron of Kertch — ruin prompt as regarded the fate reserved for ten of
- Lord Raglan to Secretary of State, 19th May 1855, a pub-
lished despatch, p. 167 in Sayer's Collection. t Todleben, vol. ii. p. 269. t Sir George Brown to Lord Raglan, 27th May, correcting his former despatch.
