The Invasion of the Crimea: Siege of Sebastopol. 1868W. Blackwood and sons, 1868 |
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Common terms and phrases
able Admiral Agamemnon Allied army Alma artillery assail assault attack Balaclava Bastion battalions batteries battle Belbec Black Sea fleet brought cannonade Canrobert Captain cavalry CHAP Chersonese chief coast Colonel de Todleben command Constantine Crimea Dundas duty effect enemy enemy's field army fire flank march forts French garrison ground guns Headquarters heights Karabel Katcha kind koff koff's Korniloff labour lan's land defences land forces lines of defence Lord Cardigan Lord Lucan Lord Rag Lord Raglan Mackenzie's Farm Malakoff Marshal St Arnaud ment Mentschi morning move Nachimoff naval night North Side officer once position Prince Mentschikoff Redan road roadstead Russian sailors sea-forts seamen Sebas Sebasto seems Sept September Severnaya ships side of Sebastopol siege Sir Edmund Lyons Sir John Burgoyne soldiers South Side squadron Star Star Fort strength suffered Tchernaya tion topol town troops whilst whole wounded XVII СНАР
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Page 134 - ROUTES OF THE JEWISH MERCHANTS CALLED AL-RADHANIYYA These merchants speak Arabic, Persian, Roman,62 Prankish, Spanish, and Slavonic. They travel from the East to the West and from the West to the East by land as well as by sea.
Page 259 - ... to do so in strict confidence, that Lord Aberdeen -does not take at all the view your letter seems to express as to our deliberations on the 1 8th. His objection was and is, to adjourned and continued sittings. My intended silence, therefore, on the 18th is entirely from deference to your Grace, but I am not sure that it would be right for me to maintain it then, as I had hoped to do, if your Grace were determined for the future to attempt, by the violence of a questioned prerogative (a course,...
Page 322 - If," says Lord Raglan to Admiral Dundas, " the enemy's attention can be occupied on the sea front as well as upon that of the land, there will be a much greater chance of making a serious impression upon their works of defence, and of throwing the garrison into confusion." Again : " Their (the fleets') presence would go far to make all feel that victory would be nearly a matter of certainty...
Page 326 - Lyons I have recalled from his present post, where his services have been so valuable, and I have no doubt in his magnificent screw ship he will be of the greatest use here. I will consult with Admiral Hamelin as to. our joint operations, and will thank your Lordship to let me know the time when you intend to attack.
Page 179 - ... for some good and sound reason, it turned and swung in another. He pursued one object at a time without being distracted by other game. All that was fanciful, or for any reason unpractical, all that was the least bit too high for him or the least bit too deep for him, all that lay, though only by a little, beyond the immediate future with which he was dealing, he utterly drove from out of his mind ; and his energies, condensed for the time upon some object to which they could be applied with...
Page 66 - ... 4. There is every reason to believe, from the appearance of the maps and from what may be expected to be the formation of the ground, that there is a very strong position between the sea at Balaklava and along the valley of the Tchernaya that would most efficiently cover the allied armies during the operation, but is too extensive to be taken up by the garrison.
Page 81 - ... as I have learnt, no body of men fell out of the prescribed line of march in such a way as to become long divided from the rest of the army. It was a laborious task, for troops which were not at the time in the enjoyment of great bodily strength, to have to tear their way through steep forest ground without a road or a path ; and at one of the halts which took place, with a portion of the foot regiments already near the summit of the heights, some impatience broke out ; for there being no water,...
Page 186 - ... from the north to the south, or from the south to the north in the northern hemisphere. And this is the case in all parts of the world on lines of railways so placed, whether they are long or short.
Page 70 - ... afternoon of the 24th Lord Raglan visited Marshal St Arnaud, and the arrangements for the flank march were then agreed on. The French commander sat rigidly in his chair during the interview, and his manner and looks showed that his sickness was gaining on him. On leaving the French camp, Lord Raglan said to one of his staff, "Did you observe St Arnaud? — he is dying."* When the visit was • Kinglake repeated next morning, the Marshal was no longer able to take part in discussion.
Page 235 - They are working at two or three redoubts, but the place is only enclosed by a thing like a low park wall, not in good repair. I am sure I could walk into it, with scarcely the loss of a man, at night, or an hour before daybreak, if all the rest of the force was up between the sea and the hill I am upon. We could leave our packs, and run into it even in the open day, only risking a few shots whilst we passed the redoubt.