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Descriptive siege diary from Sebastopol bombardment details
A correspondent’s vivid diary from Green Hill records rain and hurricane winds as Allied batteries bombard Sebastopol. He notes left and right attack progress, casualties, equipment damage, and weather hampering observation, with vivid imagery of Redan and Malakoff fortifications and the fleet awaiting orders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Green Hill
Sebastopol
Malakhots Tower
Malakhoff
Karabelnaia
Brillant
Katcha
Kamieseh
Wasatch
Garden
Redan
Cathcart’s
Sir John Campbell
Colonel Dacres
Cathcart’s Hill
General Jones
Lord Raglan
Painter
Potteries
Greenhill
Chaplan
Gordon
Times
Arly
Herald
Malakoff
Lord John Hay
Lieut
Twyford
R.N
Naval Brigade
London
Bastion-du-mat
Inkerman
Round Tower
Bizet
John M‘neil
Tulloch
General Pennefather
George Brown
Colin Campbell
Balaklava
Crofton
B.A
Armit
Eupatoria
Douglas
Land Transport Corps
Jones
No. 2
Chapman
Spalding
Freeman
Kamiesch
Avril
Great Britain
Omar Pasha
Raglan
Canrobert
Bosquet
Baidar
Tchernaya
Mackenzie
Belbek