OPERATIONS IN THE SEA OF AZOFF.
During the autumn and winter the allies conducted extensive and
effective operations in the Sea of Azoff. All around its coasts strong
places were bombarded and stormed. The granaries from which the Russian
armies were fed were consumed. The fishing establishments which were on
a great scale, and by which also the Russian armies received support,
were wasted; and the craft which traversed that sea, as well as the
armed vessels by which they had been protected, were all captured or
swept away.
OPERATIONS IN ASIA MINOR.
On a previous page the arrival of Colonel Williams as her majesty's
commissioner, and his efforts to restore order in the Turkish armies,
and to correct the rapacity and disorder of its chiefs, were noticed.
That skilful and gallant officer, now so well known as Major-general Sir
Fenwick Williams, Bart, of Kars, late M.P. for Calne, and Governor of
Woolwich, and while these pages are going to press, commander-in-chief
of the forces in Canada, put forth almost superhuman efforts to save
Asia Minor from the Russians during the summer and autumn of 1855.
In consequence of the wretched conduct of the Turkish pashas, and the
quarrels of the European officers in the Turkish service, especially
the Poles, Germans, and Hungarians, Colonel, or as we shall now call
him General, Williams shut himself up in Kars. The Turkish pashas
immediately conspired together to neglect him, to refuse succours
military or material, and by leaving Kars to fall into the hands of the
Russians, bring discredit upon the foreign general, and deter the sultan
from committing commands or positions of authority over the faithful to
infidel generals.
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