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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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uns, and threaten-ing any ships which might approach. On theother or eastern side of the mouth of the samebay was Fort Paul, a small work of thirty guns.Beyond this point, higher up the harbour, no fortsexisted until the progress of the war suggesteda further strengthening of Sebastopol. Thesevarious forts were of tremendous strength ; mostof them were casemated, and some in double tiers ;and all were increased in poAver during 1854.The positions, too, were so chosen that a cross-firecould be maintained in almost every direction ;insomuch that, shoidd a hostile ship succeed inentering the harbour, it might encounter shotsat every yard of its progress, and be completelyriddled ere it reached the inner harbour or prin-cipal port. The arrangements were such, too, thatguns might be accumulated on some of the forts,far beyond the nominal or usual strength. Although so eminently important a place,Sebastopol was left entirely undefended on theland-side until a comparatively recent date : the
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