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24. J. B. Conacher,The Aberdeen Coalition: A Study in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Party Politics(London:
    Cambridge University Press, 1968), 364–5.


25. John Sweetman,War and Administration: The Significance of the Crimean War for the British Army
    (Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press, 1984), 93.


26. Fox Maule, 2nd Baron Panmure,The Panmure Papers(London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1908),
    149, 194, 267; Richard Mullen and James Munson,Victoria: Portrait of a Queen(London:
    BBC Books, 1987), 32, 49; Richard Williams,The Contentious Crown: Public Discussion of the
    British Monarchy in the Reign of Queen Victoria(Aldershot, UK: Ashgate Publishing, 1997), 82.


27. Monica Charlot,Victoria, The Young Queen(Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1991), 189, 217;
    Carolly Erickson,Her Little Majesty: The Life of Queen Victoria(New York: Simon & Schuster,
    1997), 194; Mullen and Munson,Victoria, 85–6; James Stokesbury,Navy and Empire(New
    York: William Morrow, 1983), 240; Sweetman,War and Administration, 11.


28. Frank Eyck,The Prince Consort: A Political Biography(London: Chatto & Windus, 1959),
    232–3; Sweetman,War and Administration, 11, 84, 91–2, 131.


29. Strachan,Politics, 53; For the scope of the direct authority of the Commander-in-Chief,
    see Sweetman,War and Administration, frontispiece diagram.


30. Spiers,Army and Society, 16, 90–1.


31. John B. Hattendorf et. al., eds.,British Naval Documents, 1204–1960(Aldershot: Scolar Press,
    1993), 646–50.


32. Darrell F. Munsell,The Unfortunate Duke: Henry Pelham, Fifth Duke of Newcastle, 1811–1864
    (Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 1985), 147–8.


33. Conacher,Aberdeen, 394–5.


34. Gwyn Harries-Jenkins,The Army in Victorian Society(London: Routledge & Keegan Paul,
    1977), 86; Sweetman,War and Administration, 84.


35. Conacher,Aberdeen, 394–5, 401; Sweetman,War and Administration, 84.


36. Munsell,The Unfortunate Duke, 148; Conacher,Aberdeen, 398–400.


37. John Prest,Lord John Russell(Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1972),
    366.


38. Southgate,The Passing of the Whigs, 255.


39. Conacher,Aberdeen, 402–3, 409, 450.


40. Alan Palmer,The Banner of Battle: The Story of the Crimean War(London: Weidenfield &
    Nicolson, 1987), 177; Sweetman,War and Administration, 91.


41. Conacher,Aberdeen, 547.


42. Charlot, 300–1, 313–15, 320, 322–4; Eyck, 234–5; Robert Rhodes James,Prince Albert:
    A Biography(New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1984), 217; Stanley Weintraub,Uncrowned King:
    The Life of Prince Albert(New York: The Free Press, 1997), 292.


43. J. B. Conacher,Britain and the Crimea, 1855–6: Problems of War and Peace(Basingstoke:
    Macmillan, 1987), 3–4. Cited hereafter as ‘Conacher,Britain.’ Muriel Chamberlain,Lord
    Aberdeen: A Political Biography(London: Longman, 1983), 512.


44. Mandell Creighton,Memoir of Sir George Grey(London: Longmans, Green, 1901), 95; Prest,
    Lord John Russell, 371; Southgate,The Passing of the Whigs, 261–2


45. Palmer,The Banner of Battle, 178; Royal Historical Society,The Letters of the Third Viscount
    Palmerston to Laurence and Elizabeth Sulivan, 1804–1863, Kenneth Bourne, ed., Camden Fourth
    Series XXIII (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), 309. Letter from Palmerston to
    the Sulivans, 4 February 1855.


46. Conacher,Britain, 8–9.


47. Ibid., p. 80.