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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

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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 transported on the backs of men, who at that time earned from gd. to i^. per diem.

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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.