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Title: Pictorial history of the Russian War, 1854-5-6 : with maps, plans, and wood engravings
Year: 1856 (1850s)
Authors: Dodd, George, 1808-1881
Subjects: Crimean War, 1853-1856
Publisher: Edinburgh : W. & R. Chambers
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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lf of workingmischief. A Russian spy, dressed as a woman,was detected in the French camp this day. On the 12th, the artillerymen of the chasseurswere busily employed in filling their shells for themortars : three or four hundred of these shellshaving been accumulated and ranged under theshelter of the rocks. The men carried heavyplanks up to the proper position, laid themhorizontally on beds of sand, and placed theguns upon the platforms thus made. The gabions, too—large cylinders of light wicker-work—werefilled with earth for the defences. During theevening, the chasseurs worked up so close tothe fortress, that a formidable encounter becameimminent. So little was previously known ofthe topography of the district, that General Niel,engineering commander, had to form his plansfrom his own reconnaissances; he scrambled fromrock to rock, and from tree to tree, with a fewsoldiers accompanying him, and shaped hisplans according to the observations which hewas enabled to make in person.
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Attack on Fort Tzec. Before narrating the stirring events of the13th and 14th, it may be well to describe a littlemore minutely the fortifications of Bomarsund.Omitting minor batteries or redoubts, they maybe regarded as four in number, which, fromtheir relative positions, may be called the shore,south, north, and Prasto defences. The greator shore battery commanded the harbour byits formidable convex frontage, casemated fora number of guns which the attacking partycould not at first correctly estimate ; but it wasafterwards found that this work Avas defendedlandward as well as seaward, having a moat onthe land-side, and being pierced altogether for180 guns. The casemate—a bomb-proof chamberimmediately behind and around each gun, for theprotection of the artillerymen—gave great addi-tional strength to this work. The southern fort,called Fort Tzee, consisted of two rows of circularcasemated batteries, one above the other, eachpierced for fourteen guns. The diameter of thefort was a

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