Sujet

The Siege of Sebastopol - Valley of Inkerman, 1854. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

The Siege of Sebastopol - Valley of Inkerman, 1854. Crimean War. Landscape around the besieged Black Sea port, showing: 'English Sentries; Ruins of Inkerman; Cossack Field Guns; River Inkerman...The Valley of Inkerman commences at the inmost extremity of the harbour of Sebastopol, and the river Inkerman runs through it. The Valley, where the Sketch was taken, was not more than 700 yards wide; some of our cavalry, having gone down to a farm-house, where there were some stacks of hay (which, by-the-by, is getting scarce), were suddenly fired upon by four field-guns, which the Russian Cossack Artillery had left masked behind the walls of the ruins. Fortunately, our men had taken most of the hay before the guns commenced firing; so they got off with a good share of the spoil before the Russians could do them any damage'. From "Illustrated London News", 1854.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM22B07_423

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Property release

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Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

22,0Mo (1,8Mo) / 32,6cm x 16,9cm / 3847 x 1996 (300dpi)

Mots clés

river valley British geography territorial ruins ruin Ukraine war century Russia Britain newspapers press eastern europe TERRITORY position concept ruined B&W artillery positions 19th century Sevastopol battlefield black & white black and white B W nineteenth century The Print Collector Cossack Crimea geographical feature Illustrated London News Krym Sebastopol TGN ILN Inkerman newspaper engraving landscape Cossacks Crimean War Unknown disputed territory 19th-century