CAMPAIGN IN THE CEIMEA:
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GEORGE BRACKENBURY,
ULTE F THE CRIMEAN ARMY FUND.
LONDON:
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LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, AND LONGMANS, PATERNOSTER ROW.
1855.
LONDON: Printed by Day Si Son, Lithographers to the Queen.
In offering to the Public the following pages, designed to illustrate Mr. Simpson's series of drawings of the " Seat of War in the East," the Author is fully conscious how far his humble efforts fall short of what is due to the merits of these admirable productions, and to the genius of the accomplished artist. He is no less sensible that the slight historic sketch of the principal events of the War, from its commencement up to the middle of last winter, which forms the earlier portion of the Work, is but a too inadequate tribute to the bravery, the endurance, and the self-devotion of the noblest and most glorious Army which ever poured forth its blood in defence of the liberties and of the honour of England. But, whatever may be his short-comings in these and other respects, he will feel that he has not written quite in vain if he shall have succeeded in throwing one additional ray of light on the spirit-stirring and pathetic story, every detail of which has an absorbing interest for millions of his fellow-coimtrymen, and in cancelling one fraction of the vast debt of gratitude which England owes to the most chivalrous and heroic of her sons.
A portion of these pages was already in the press when the longdesired intelligence of the fall of Sebastopol gladdened the public heart;
allusions maj, therefore, occur in them which that great event has robbed, in a measure, of their appropriateness; but it has not been thought necessary to alter or erase them in consequence, since every hour the Telegraph may bring news which may throw the most recent occurrences into a comparative antiquity.
The Author must not omit to acknowledge his obligations to the able and spirited letters of the correspondents of the London press, especially to those of the gifted and brilliant " Times Correspondent," as well as to the private letters of a dear and valued friend, which describe, with the simple eloquence of truth, the stirring events in which he has borne a distinguished part, from the first starting of the expedition until the present day.
CONTENTS.
Historical Introduction
The Cavalry Affair of the Heights of Bulganak
Balaklava, looking towards the Sea.
The Gale oflf the Port of Balaklava.
Sebastopol from the Rear of the English Batteries
Charge of the Heavy Cavalry Brigade
Second Charge of the Guards at the Battle of Inkermann
Lord Eaglan's Head-Quarters at Khutor Karagatch.
Distant View of Lord Raglan's Head-Quarters before Sebastopol
A Quiet Day in the Diamond Battery. Portrait of Lancaster Sixty-eight
Pounder, 15th December, 1854 The Field of Inkermann Sentinel of the Zouaves before Sebastopol. Commissariat Difficulties. The Road from Balaklava to Sebastopol at
Kadikoi, during the wet weather The Graves in the Fort on Cathcart's Hill of the Officers of the Fourth
Division who fell at Inkermann Charge of the Light Cavalry Brigade, 25th October, 1854 Huts and Warm Clothing for the Army Camp of the Naval Brigade before Sebastopol Camp of the First Division, looking North towards the Camp of the
Second Division: the Heights of Inkermann in the distance Sebastopol from the Twenty-six Gun Battery, on the Extreme Right of the French Attack Head of the Harbour, Sebastopol
Graves at the Head of the Harbour of Balaklava....86
Sebastopol from the Sea. Sketched from the Deck of H.M.S. Sidon. 87
Embarkation of the Sick at Balaklava, looking South,..89
A Quiet Night in the Batteries. A Sketch in the Greenhill Battery (Major
Chapman's), 29th January, 1855..... 91
The Camp of the Second Division, looking East. January, 1855.. 92
The Ruins of Inkermann, and City of Caverns....93
Highland Brigade Camp, looking South.....94
The Railway at Balaklava....... 96
The New Works at the Siege of Sebastopol on the Right Attack. From the Mortar Battery on the Right of Grordon's Battery.. 98
A Christmas Dinner on the Heights before Sebastopol...99
Sebastopol from the East, or Extreme Right of English Attack •..101
View from the Heights above Balaklava, looking towards Sebastopol.
Showing the Ground of the Battles of the 25th October and of the
6th November, 1854, and the Line of our Defences since the 25th of October........102
Excavated Church in the Caverns of Inkermann, looking West..103
A Hot Day in the Batteries....... 104
A Hot Night in the Batteries......105
Valley of the Shadow of Death. Caves in the WoronzoflF Road, behind the
Twenty-one Gun Battery......106
Russian Rifle-Kt; now part of the British advanced Trenches, on the Left of the Right Attack, or Gordon's Battery....107
Prince Woronzoff's Palace, near Yalta, on the South Coast of the Crimea 108 The Monastery of Saint George and Cape Fiolente, looking West..110
The Lighthouse at Cape Chersonese, looking South...111
The Malakoff, or Round Tower; from the Twenty-one Gun Battery
(Frontispiece)...... Introduction, p. v.