Menshikoff left in the city: 4,500 militia, 2,700 gunners, 4,400 marines, 18,500 naval seamen and 5,000 workmen: a garrison of 35,100 men.Īfter the Battle of the Alma, the British and French were seen to march around the city and appear on the Chersonese Uplands, demonstrating to the Russians that the siege would be fought out on the south side of the city.Īt this point, earth batteries and stone walls ran from the Great Ravine to the sea. Immediately following their defeat on the Alma, the Russians sank a line of warships across the entrance to Sevastopol harbour, to prevent the Allied fleets from entering.įrom the beginning of the siege and, particularly after Prince Menshikoff left the city with his field army, the defence of Sevastopol was led and inspired by Admiral Kornilov, until his death, and Lieutenant Colonel Todleben, Menshikoff’s chief engineer.
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The predominant experts were the engineers and the artillerymen the flamboyant actions of the cavalry a world away.įollowing the successful Battle of the Alma on 20 th September 1854, the British and French allies resolved not to make a direct attack on the Russian Naval Base and City of Sevastopol from the north, but to march around the city and besiege it from the south and east.īritish ‘rifle team’ in the trenches: Siege of Sevastopol September 1854 to September 1855Īround the edge of the city, along its fortifications, stood a number of redoubts that were to be fought over during the siege: the Malakhov, the Redan, Flagstaff Bastion, the Little Redan and others.Ī great ravine ran north to south across the Chersonese, marking the divide between the French lines on the left and the British on the right. The Russians developed the art of sniping from the ‘rifle pits’ dug in no man’s land. Sorties led to hand to hand fighting along the entrenchments. French and British soldiers manned the siege trenches through two harsh winters, in the first with almost no winter equipment. The central theme running through the Crimean War was the appalling siege of Sevastopol, a foretaste of the trench fighting of the American Civil War, ten years later, and finally the First World War from 1914 to 1918.ĭaily, hundreds of cannon battered down fortifications that the Russian troops were forced to re-dig before the next day’s bombardment.
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French General Canrobert during the Siege of Sevastopol September 1854 to September 1855ĭate of the Siege of Sevastopol: September 1854 to September 1855