3-021-458 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Crimea Revisited: the Battle-Field of Inkerman, 1869. 'Our Artist says: "This monument stands where the thick of the fight took place. Cossack Hill is seen beyond; the battery is still visible on its summit...the young spring leaves were budding out, flowers and butterflies were plentiful in the warm sunshine, and the whole scene was in strong contrast to its aspect on that cold, foggy, and rainy morning which I have so often had described to me on the spot by those who were actors in the event. The fragments of shell and bullets are all gathered by the Tartars; little bits of leather, such as morsels of belts and knapsack straps, are about the only remains to be seen on the fields...I walked down the Quarry Ravine. I knew what was under my feet. The bed of the ravine is one long continuous grave...It is as truly a "city of the dead"...The Inkerman monument has the following inscription: "In memory of the English, French, and Russians who fell in the Battle of Inkerman, 5th November, 1854." This is repeated in the Russian language and letters on another panel. There is also the following on one of the sides: "Erected by the British Army, a.d. 1856".' From "Illustrated London News", 1869.