25 Aug 1855
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Newspaper
Weekly Chronicle
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Aug 25, 1855
Page
1
A detailed despatch from the Moniteur outlines renewed bombardment and allied assault plans on Sebastopol and the Malakhof works. It notes Russian hunger and armor losses, reports on fortifications, and confirms a Russian sortie defeat. A prior hospital incident ends in two deaths from a soldier’s self-inflicted wound and a fellow patient’s injury.
Lieutenant Evans of the 88th escapes by inches as shell fragments bend his sword hilt. Ambulance waggons with eight wounds each arrive for the English army. Markets at Balaklava and the French bazaar show varied vegetables and rising prices. Soldiers joke about shell risks while trenches show thinning parapets after recent rains. Carrier pigeons sighted near Sebastopol hint at messaging, with passes at Thorgoun and Baidar Valley easing camp communication.
Rear-Admiral Dunbar reports Allied naval actions against Sveaborg fortress from August 6 to 10. The British and French squadrons used mortars and gun-boats to attack fortifications, fire spread across Vargon and Gustafsvard, and crews achieved significant material destruction with coordinated mortar and gun-fire.
A long roll of ship names and classifications appears, listing vessels such as Duke of Wellington Exmouth Hurgalug Pembroke Cornwallis Cossack Merlin Vulture Hastings Edinburgh Am phion Magicienne Dragon Belleisle and others with gun boats mortar vessels and support craft like Starling Lark Thistle Redwing Magpie Badger Pelter Snap Weazel Stork Pincher Dap per Weazel Snappe r and more.
Scrap from Baltic letters notes Sweaborg destruction valued at 2,000,000. Twenty five 13 inch mortars fired over 48 hours, with up to 350 rounds, left the fortress burning in seven places for three days. Gun-boats maneuvered in circles to cover ranges and reload between broadsides.
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