Carronade Battery, flanking the Ditch of the Redan. Sappers looking for Electric Wires communicating with the Powder Magazine. G. Shaw Lefevre, photographer (British, 1831 - 1928) negative September 8, 1855, print 1856 View inside the carronade battery of the Redan after the French and British capture of the Malakoff and the Redan during the siege of Sevastopol. A trench supported by sandbags and wicker gabions winds through the fortification, the ground littered with artillery and other debris from battle. Three men stand at different points across the battery, looking for electrical wires. (
Carronade Battery, flanking the Ditch of the Redan. Sappers looking for Electric Wires communicating with the Powder Magazine. G. Shaw Lefevre, photographer (British, 1831 - 1928) negative September 8, 1855, print 1856 View inside the carronade battery of the Redan after the French and British capture of the Malakoff and the Redan during the siege of Sevastopol. A trench supported by sandbags and wicker gabions winds through the fortification, the ground littered with artillery and other debris from battle. Three men stand at different points across the battery, looking for electrical wires. (Recto, mount) lower center, handwritten in pencil: "Carronade Battery in the Redan - Shippers / looking for electric wire communicating / with the Powder Magazine." Lower left, handwritten in pencil: "4 [circled]"
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