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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.