ABSTRACT
The victory of the French in the battle of the Holy Places had wounded Nicholas too deeply for him to accept defeat. He replied by an appeal at once to force and to persuasion, a move characteristic of his whole policy. He planned to attach England to himself and thus deprive Turkey of her only friend. Count Leiningen was sent on a special mission to Constantinople, with instructions to demand redress on several points. He was to insist on a change of government in Bosnia; to insist on an armistice between Turkey and Montenegro; to prevent Turkish vessels from entering the Bay of Cattaro and using Sutorina as a port. On learning of the success of the Leiningen mission the Czar relaxed his war preparations by countermanding the military sequestration of horses in the Black Sea districts. But Prince Mensikov went forward on a special mission to Constantinople.
