| Show A crimean general A cor col correspondent of the bondon thus adso 5 general borgoyn Bur burgor Burgoy goyn nf I 1 en officer 0 in the crimea tit ait it is a curious coln evence in the ibe of one life that sir str john burgoyne should in the prim antl anil at the end of Ms military carta carter have commanded the eng engineers leers in two great preat sieges sieves alpi aid twice trici have been n foiled from the very same in in 1812 when chuke oW ellington a advanced against burgos the town wan wag but ao an old castle had lud i been d in the french had bad up wree lines ot of earth earthworks earthworms works round the spot on w it stood rhese these ad been executed in lu haste and in or all ru lebut 11 tut lut against sapped and antl rained in fit vau van ao 2000 french J kliers oler dier held heid the place an tn anny comm ed ty by a general undefeated up to that time but wil wit who olivas was then forced to retreat to amandon lis ils his kis siege sicre train and th CaMP campaign or of year yran was vas a failure A after f ter ye tarr orr ors sir jabali berone sevastopol sebastopol Seba ad avd again the tile sali saif aane sane lle tle thing A few earthwork a are afe thrown up in hatte batte before our oun awu bwll eyes tyes aj and the career ft a army arroy lg is are and why wily Is had sir john been abe able to rt iod imd ad the thet sigm sim aim ot of ike the time tinier the lesson so rudely taught film at burg bargi dot riot have been thrown away awat our hawe have known what earth tarth works were and ant boen heu with wilb means I 1 to destroy themly themi it such be possible pow poy bie ble or fe we houll not have sat dawn before them aa as we hav rai e daf ta have the tearful fearful rick risk of fal ali failure all lure ure urr i we lire are reduced eul eil to our oun rrt nt ut tate state late and ionly because becane bec aue ane sir john at lin the ha heul head ul of a large party of veter yeter veterans ha bar dur duy inthe the forty years of peace resisted every improvement pro in to military science aj as a personal leidt to their heir superior knowledge and experience and ani they havey havet have in consequence of their position been able to keep things pretty much as they wre were at the end ot of the last war sir john burgoyne Is preeminently pre eminently what is termed la in official parlance par lancea ca safe man he never troubled the minister for money to make mate scientific experiment experiments sy or to improve the education ol 01 engineers or artillerymen artilleryman artillery men for lor for every inventor be he had a bucket ot of cold water administered in the blandest blankest blan bian det dest manner possible 1 ile he possessed above all men the art of keeping t things h ings smooth and quiet la in pall mall and rose in favor and in 1 fortune accordingly lle ite hoped ol 01 course coursey that th these ese things would last his times time and so they would have hai e done b blut tint u t for tor or this ugly russian russia n war B ar which has destroyed these visions of quiet and ae we now find ourselves engaged in a struggle with the most bar barbarous barbar barous bargus pus nation ol 01 europe whose so idlers soldiers are serfs whose officers are halt half educated 2 and whose military system is corrupt to the core yet in every i scientific point they have shown shown themselves as superior to us in military as we are to them and the rest ot of europe in civil engineering I 1 their artillery silences ours without difficulty their shells bells are larger and thrown with greater precision than oursa ours and their skill still in fortification amazes our officers who can make no head lead against it their science in short has made up for all their other and neutralized all the intelligence and bra brai ery of our noble soldiers it Is for all this we have to thank think sir john burgoyne ibi and his band bang of 0 co who have reduced the he of the most scientific and enterprising people ot of europe below the level of the most roost barbarous |
