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The city of Sevastopol was the home of the tsar's Black Sea Fleet, which threatened the Mediterranean. The Russian field army withdrew before the allies could encircle it. The siege was the culminating struggle for the strategic Russian port in 1854–55 and was the final episode in the Crimean War.
Oblężenie Sewastopola – oblężenie głównej rosyjskiej bazy morskiej nad Morzem Czarnym podczas wojny krymskiej przez wojska koalicji brytyjsko - francusko - tureckiej. Trwało 349 dni, od 17 października 1854 do 11 września 1855 roku i zakończyło się zdobyciem miasta przez siły koalicji.
10 paź 2024 · Siege of Sevastopol, (Oct. 17, 1854–Sept. 11, 1855), the major operation of the Crimean War (1853–56), in which 50,000 British and French troops (joined by 10,000 Piedmontese troops during 1855), commanded by Lord Raglan and Gen. François Canrobert, besieged and finally captured the main naval base.
28 lip 2010 · Charts and plans illustrating the Siege of Sevastopol during the Crimean War. The strong and heavily fortified Black Sea port of Sevastopol, on the south-west coast of the Crimea, was the main naval base of the Russian Black Sea Fleet.
Learn about the siege of Sevastopol, a major event in the Crimean War, where British and French troops besieged the Russian naval base and city for nine months in 1854-1855. See maps, photos and accounts of the battles, fortifications and casualties.
27 wrz 2024 · In September 1854 the allies landed troops in Russian Crimea, on the north shore of the Black Sea, and began a yearlong siege of the Russian fortress of Sevastopol.
20 mar 2018 · On October 17th, 1854, the aforementioned allied forces lay siege to Sevastopol. During the siege, the attackers dug an extensive network of trenches, punctuated by gun batteries. These trenches contributed to the stalemate which defined the eleven-month-long siege of Sevastopol.
