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The allied expeditions had arrived in the East committed to the defense of Turkey and particularly the city of Constantinople, if it were not yet too late to save either. With the evacuation of the Principalities following the abandonment of the siege of Silistria, the British and French leaders were caught with no definite plans for future operations. The decisions of the “engineers” in Paris and London had not looked beyond the defense of Turkey in Europe.1
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Gooch, B.D. (1959). Invasion and a Clash of Arms. In: The New Bonapartist Generals in the Crimean War. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-1001-1_8
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