Zouaves assaulting the Rifle-Pits, against the fortifications on Malakoff hill, fort being built by the Russians at Mamelon, Crimean War, 1855

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llustration by Henry Marriot Paget (1857-1936) from Cassell's Century Edition History of England, pub circa 1901.

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