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Add. MS a/244/95
Title
Letter from Sherard Osborn to J. W. Blakesley
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- 7 Aug. 1856 (Creation)
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8 sheets
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Anwick Rectory - had advanced with his gunboat squadron into the Sea of Azov before returning to Britain, had the War continued the British would have attacked the Russian left, problems of the journey home through ice and snow, infringement of the armistice by the Russians, traffic along the Arabat Spit, scurvy and typhoid affecting the Russians, breakdown in Russian land transport, Russian people the victims of their own disinformation