2-913-934 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Sebastopol during the Siege - general view, 1854. Crimean War. View of warships on the Black Sea, the battlefield, and positions of the allies and the Russians: 'French Fleet; French Attack; Chapman's Battery; Lancaster One-gun Battery; Flag-staff Battery; Garden Battery...Heights above Sebastopol, Oct. 16, 1854. The siege of Sebastopol bids fair to rank as the most remarkable operation in the annals of modern warfare...whilst it is fully admitted that the use of our enormous guns forms a new era in the history of sieges, it is equally certain that in no instance have besieging armies been placed in front of works so heavily armed as the batteries of the Russians in Sebastopol...we are not content with attacking one of the enemy's works in the manner which time and the art of sieges has taught; but we make a general onslaught on the whole fortress at once...'. From "Illustrated London News", 1854.