Sujet

The Siege of Sebastopol - general view, 1854. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

The Siege of Sebastopol - general view, 1854. Crimean War. Map showing the Russian-held ports of Sebastopol and Balaclava, harbours and warships. On the Black Sea are Allied warships, and also shown are positions of the French and English armies besieging the ports. 'A Russian deserter came over from Sebastopol, after having received a tremendous flogging for delaying to turn out on the occasion of the last alarm. He said that the Russians had moved all but seven thousand men to the other side of Sebastopol harbour'. From "Illustrated London News", 1854.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM22B07_200

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Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

59,1Mo (6,0Mo) / 47,0cm x 31,5cm / 5546 x 3722 (300dpi)

Mots clés

transport transportation city sea wall walls town mountain mountains trade port ports ship ships strategy British geography territorial walled city Ukraine military war location Armed Forces century camp camps Russia Britain strategic newspapers press TERRITORY position concept B&W balaclava positions SURROUNDED Army warfare battleship Black Sea 19th century Sevastopol water transport warship military intelligence encampment black & white black and white B W armed services warships City Walls battleships British Army nineteenth century siege The Print Collector Balaklava besieged Crimea geographical feature Illustrated London News Krym Sebastopol Siege of Sebastopol TGN walled town ILN military camp French Army newspaper engraving map landscape Crimean War Unknown Siege of Sevastopol town wall disputed territory military strategy naval ship Crimean Peninsula 19th-century