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Title: Pictorial history of the Russian War, 1854-5-6 : with maps, plans, and wood engravings
Year: 1856 (1850s)
Authors: Dodd, George, 1808-1881
Subjects: Crimean War, 1853-1856
Publisher: Edinburgh : W. & R. Chambers
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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naya plain, strengthening all thenumerous hillocks on the left bank of the river.During the momentous proceedings at Sebastopol—the bombardment on the 5th, 6th, and 7th, thecapture of the Malakoff on the Sth, and the retreatof the Russians to the north side of the harbouron the 9th—this motley army in the rear, con-sisting of Allies of four nations, remained on thewatch for any operations that might call for theirservices ; but none such occurred. Highlanders,Bersaglieri, Zouaves, and Osmanlis fraternisedduring their hours of leisure : using the bono asa sort of universal language of good-fellowshipamongst themselves, and the Moskov non bonoas an equally general declaration of opinion con-cerning the enemy. After the evacuation of Sebastopol by theRussians, large bodies of French left the siege-camp and went to the Baidar Valley, either pre-pai-atory to some intended manoeuvre, or to recruittheir health in this verdant part of the Crimea,which was traversed and re-traversed by the
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OPERATIONS IN THE SEA OF AZOF:—1855. 449 Allied troops all the way from Tchorgouna andBaidar to Yalta. New military roads were con-structed in various directions, between Balaklava,Kamara, Tchorgouna, the Fedukhine heights, andthe plateau, to facilitate the movements of thegreat number of troops encamped on the plain.The positions of the belligerent forces were trulycomprehensive and formidable at this period;for while the Allied lines and camps extendedfrom Kamiesch in the west to Baidar in theeast, the Russian lines and camps occupied thewhole range of heights from the northern sideof Sebastopol Harbour to the Aitodor Hills nearMangoup Kale, with Simferopol and Baktcheseraias a base of operations. In the month of Octoberthe Allied position became still more extensive;for the Sardinians pushed across the Tchernayaat Tchorgouna, and made frequent excursions upthe Tchouliou Valley to Ozenbash and Aitodor;while the French extended their encampmentsfrom the Baidar Valley north-east tow

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