The Invasion of the Crimea: Its Origin, And An Account of Its ..., volume 2
The Invasion of the Crimea: Its Origin, And An Account of Its ..., volume 2
Kinglake Alexander William
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later, was the one above shown. What I have above called ' a kind of chance ' was brouglit about in this way :— sA.f^cor- 4ing to the practice which was in force up to the. sum* mer of 1854, the Secretary of State for the Colonies was also ; , !,■ the 'Secretary Of War.* Before the war, however, the public hardly observed, and in fact hardly knew this, because in peace- : ,\ time (thanks to the labours of the 'Horse Guards,* the office of the Secretary at War, the Ordnance, and several other of...fices) the duties of the Colonial Secretary, in his character a& Secre- tary of War, were very slight ; and, tliere bein^ no pposp^t.:^f war when Jjord Aberdeen^'s Mipistry was formed, the Duke of Newcastle was of course selected with a view to his qiialifica. tions for the administration of the Colonies, and not with any iCOosidera^on, eitlier one way or the other, as to his aptUude for the business of the War Department; When the rupture (With Russia occurred, it became apparent that, unless a change 'Were made, the Minister who happened to be the Colonial Sfecre« •^iif wduW' stand charged with the busijxtss of tJ^f war?
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