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Siege of Sebastopol - Preparing a Train for the Trenches, 1854. Crimean War: British Army position. 'Sebastopol will fall, no one doubts it - the question is only one of time...It is satisfactory...to know that the force of the Allies has been increased by the arrival of 25,000 French at Kherson, all of whom are landed and ready for action...A large mill on the right of a small gorge has been turned into a powder magazine, and near it is the siege train, with all the heavy ordnance, furnaces, mortars, and other apparatus. Beyond the mill is the Light Division, with Sir George Brown; and the 4th, with Sir George Cathcart. Two battalions of Rifles are on each wing. The extreme left is held by Sir R. England's division. The whole of the army is thus distributed, fronting, as well as the undulation of the ground permits, the town of Sebastopol'. From "Illustrated London News", 1854.