After passages varying from twenty-three days to five weeks, the whole arrived at Constantinople toward the end of May. Men and officers were all well, but twenty-six horses had perished on the voyage. The regiment was disembarked at Kulali, on the Asiatic side of the Bosporus, and on the 30th of May was inspected by the Sultan in person at Scutari. On the 2nd June the regiment re-embarked on the same vessel, and sailed to Varna, where, on disembarkation, [Sidenote: 4th June.] it was made part of the Light Brigade under the command of Lord Cardigan. Leaving Varna on the 8th it marched to Devna, some eighteen miles to the north-west, and remained encamped at a short distance from the village until the 28th July, [Sidenote: 28th July.]on which day it marched for Yeni-bazar, halting at Kutlubi, Yasytepe, and Sazego on the way, and finally encamped at Yeni-bazar on the 1st August. So far the army had done nothing, but had been condemned to inactivity, losing many men by cholera meanwhile. The retreat of the Russians from the Danube after their failure before Silistria, and defeat at Giurgevo in July, had virtually secured the only object of the expedition, namely, that Russia should abandon the invasion of Turkey. But at the end of June the British Government decided to direct the expedition against Sebastopol, and to destroy Russia’s great stronghold in the Black Sea. [Sidenote: 25th Aug.] Accordingly, on the 25th of August the Seventeenth started to march back from Yeni-bazar to Varna. Cholera had been at work with them, as with the rest of the army, in August, and they left twelve men buried at Yeni-bazar. [Sidenote: 28th Aug.] Arriving at Varna on the 28th, the regiment embarked once more on four transports on 2nd and 3rd September, and sailed for the Crimea. [Sidenote: 17th Sept.] A fortnight later the headquarters, under Colonel Lawrenson, landed at Kalamita Bay, the spot chosen by Lord Raglan for the disembarkation of the army. The Seventeenth lost two more men by cholera in the passage, and showed a serious falling-off in strength on landing. [Sidenote: 1854.] +-------------------+---------+ | Field Officers. | 2 | | Captains. | 4 | | Subalterns. | 7 | | Staff. | 6 | | Sergeants. | 16 | | Trumpeters. | 5 | | Farriers. | 4 | | Corporals. | 11 | | Privates. | 192 | | Totals--All ranks | 247 | +-------------------+---------+ | HORSES. Officers. | 21 | | Troops | 216 | +-------------------+---------+ [Sidenote: 19th Sept.]