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MR. WILLIAM SIMPSON'S SEAT OF WAR
REPRODUCED IN HALF-TONE FROM PROOFS
OF THE FIRST EDITION
THE
Seat of War in the East
FROM EIGHTY-ONE DRAWINGS MADE DURING
THE WAR IN THE CRIMEA.
WILLIAM SIMPSON,
R.I., M.R.A.S., F.R.G.S., R.I.B.A., &c.. ic..
WITH AN HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE CAMPAIGN, AND DESCRIPTIVE NOTICES OF THE ILLUSTRATIONS
By GEORGE BRACKENBURY, C.M.G.
SECRETARY AT KADIKOI TO THE HONORARY AGENTS OF THE CRIMEAN ARMY FUND
THE PLATES REPRODUCED IN HALF-TONE FROM PROOFS OF THE FIRST EDITION OF 1855-56.
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London, March 1856,
CONTENTS.
The Charge of the Light Cavalry Brigade Frontispiece
Historical Introduction to Part I. ■'■
Historical Introduction to Part 11 50
NOTES ON THE ILLUSTRATIONS.
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I.— The Malakotf, or Round Tower— From the Twenty-one Gun Battery...121
II.— The Cavalry Affair of the Heights of Bulganak 122
III. — Balaklava, looking towards the Sea 123
IV.— The Gale off the Port of Balaklava 125
V. — Sebastopol from the Hear of the English Batteries 127
VI. — Charge of the Heavy Cavalry Brigade 128
VII. — Second Charge of the Guards at the Battle of Inkei-mann.... 181
VIII.— Lord Eaglan's Head-quarters at Khutor Karagatch...... 182
IX. — Distant View of Lord Eaglan's Head-quarters before Sebastopol... 133 X. — A Quiet Day in the Diamond Battery. Portrait of Lancaster Sixty-eight
Pounder, 15th December, 1854 134
XI. — The Field of Inkermann 185
XII.— Sentinel of the Zouaves before Sebastopol 187
XIII. — Commissariat Difficulties. The Road from Balaklava to Sebastopol at
Kadikoi, during the wet weather 137
XIV.— The Graves in the Fort on Cathcart's Hill of the Officers of the Fourth
Division who fell at Inkermann 188
XV.— Charge of the Light Cavalry Brigade, 25th October, 1854....140
XVI.— Huts and Warm Clothing for the Army 141
XVII.— Camp of the Naval Brigade before Sebastopol 142
XVIII. — Camp of the F'irst Division, looking North towards the Camp of the Second
Division: the Heights of Inkermann in the distance.... 148 XIX.— Sebastopol from the Twenty-six Gun Battery, on the Extreme Eight of the
French Attack 144
XX.— Head of the Harbour, Sebastopol 145
XXI. — Graves at the Head of the Harbour of Balaklava...... 146
XXII.— Sebastopol from the Soa. Sketched from the Deck of H.M.S. Sidon.. 146
XXIII. — Embarkation of the Sick at Balaklava, looking South 148
VUl CONTENTS.
PLATE PAGE
XXIV. — A Quiet Night in the Batteries. A Sketch in the Greenhill Battery (Major
Chapman's), 29th January, 1855 149
XXV. — The Camp of the Second Division, looking East. January, 1855... 150
XXVI. — The Euins of Inkermann, and City of Caverns 151
XXVII.— Highland Brigade Camp, looking South 152
XXVIII.— The Railway at Balaklava 153
XXIX. — The New Works at the Siege of Sebastopol on the Bight Attack. From the
Mortar Battery on the Right of Gordon's Battery 154
XXX. — A Christmas Dinner on the Heights before Sebastopol 155
XXXI. — Sebastopol from the East, or Extreme Right of English Attack... 157
XXXII. — View from the Heights above Balaklava, looking towards Sebastopol. Showing the Ground of the Battles of the 25th October and of the 5th
November, 1854, and the Line of our Defences since the 25th October. 158
XXXIII. — Excavated Church in the Caverns of Inkermann, looking West... 159
XXXIV.— A Hot Day in the Batteries 159
XXXV.— A Hot Night in the Batteries 160
XXXVI. — Valley of the Shadow of Death. Caves in the AVoronzoff lioad, behind the
Twenty-one Gun Battery. ' 161
XXXVII. — Russian Rifle-Pit; now part of the British advanced Trenches, on the Left of tlie Right Attack, or Gordon's Battery 162
XXXVIII. — Prince Woronzoff's Palace, near Yalta, on the South Coast of the Crimea. 163