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The siege of Sevastopol (at the time called in English the siege of Sebastopol) lasted from October 1854 until September 1855, during the Crimean War.The allies (French, Sardinian, Ottoman, and British) landed at Eupatoria on 14 September 1854, intending to make a triumphal march to Sevastopol, the capital of the Crimea, with 50,000 men.
The siege of Sevastopol, also known as the defence of Sevastopol (Russian: Оборона Севастополя, romanized: Oborona Sevastopolya) or the Battle of Sevastopol (German: Schlacht um Sewastopol; Romanian: Bătălia de la Sevastopol), was a military engagement that took place on the Eastern Front of the Second World War.
The siege of Sevastopol began on September 20, 1854, and lasted for a year because its capture took place on September 8, 1855. The rest of the ground forces proceeded to Crimea, and its artillery division constituted more than half of the Ottoman coalition forces consisting of 23,000 soldiers.
Works about the siege of Sevastopol (1854–1855) (5 P) Pages in category "Siege of Sevastopol (1854–1855)" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total.
The Battle of the Great Redan (or the Storming of the Third Bastion; [6] Russian: Оборона Третьего бастиона, Штурм третьего бастиона) was a major battle during the Crimean War, fought between British forces against Russia on 18 June and 8 September 1855 as a part of the Siege of Sevastopol.
The Battle of Balaclava, fought on 25 October 1854 during the Crimean War, was part of the Siege of Sevastopol (1854–55), an Allied attempt to capture the port and fortress of Sevastopol, Russia's principal naval base on the Black Sea.
Sevastopol in August depicts the conclusion of the siege of Sevastopol and the eventual defeat and withdrawal of the Russian forces. The narrative focus alternates between Mikhail and Vladimir Kozeltsov, two brothers who both fight and eventually die for the Russian side.
Siege of Sevastopol (1854–1855), during the Crimean War Siege of Sevastopol (1941–1942) , during the Second World War Siege of Sevastopol (panorama) , a 1904 painted panorama by Franz Roubaud