balaclava, 1855 godine, kao radnici (grade most, kuce...)
Author: Wood, Evelyn, 1838-1919
Subject: Crimean War, 1853-1856
Publisher: London, Chapman & Hall, ld.
Year: 1895
The infantry at Balaklava, though they escaped
night duties and were better fed than their comrades
in the Front, did hard work, carrying during December
and January, 7000 loads of Siege materials to the
Engineer Parks, and 145 tons weight of biscuit to the
Army Head-quarters' depot. It was not till the spring
of 1855 that Croats were engaged as carriers, although
we were within two days steaming of Constantinople,
where all merchandise and personal luggage is trans-
ported on the backs of men, who at that time earned
from gd. to i^. per diem.
Porte had been invoked. If the Croats had been
unwilling to come to the Crimea, except for high wages,
it would have been cheaper to have paid them any
sum rather than have exhausted the little remaining
strength of our fighting men. We had but few of
such either at home or in the Colonies, and those in
the Chersonese were nearly worn out.
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