. Pictorial history of the Russian War, 1854-5-6 : with maps, plans, and wood engravings . PORTK) IE CI! FORMING CHIEF SC Can Hi acted ?? Engraved ia. COMMENCEMENT OF THE SIEGE:—1854. 233 government never suspecting the possibility of ahostile army occupying the plateau south of thetown. There was not in 1834 so much as a gateor the smallest rampart—the streets of the townascending to the open country or plateau itselfwithout any interruptions. It was not until aftera dispute with the English government in 1837,concerning the ship Vixen, that the emperorthought proper to attend to the land-def
. Pictorial history of the Russian War, 1854-5-6 : with maps, plans, and wood engravings . PORTK) IE CI! FORMING CHIEF SC Can Hi acted ?? Engraved ia. COMMENCEMENT OF THE SIEGE:—1854. 233 government never suspecting the possibility of ahostile army occupying the plateau south of thetown. There was not in 1834 so much as a gateor the smallest rampart—the streets of the townascending to the open country or plateau itselfwithout any interruptions. It was not until aftera dispute with the English government in 1837,concerning the ship Vixen, that the emperorthought proper to attend to the land-defences ofthis place ; but even then the north side of theharbour, rather than the south, received his atten-tion ; for at the breaking out of the Avar in 1853 there were no other defences on the south than ashort wall, loopholed for musketry, but withoutany strengthening by towers or bastions: a wallutterly useless against large ordnance. The north side of the harbour, though butlittle inhabited previous to the war, presentsnatural facilities for a position of great strength—facilities which the military engineers in theservice of the czar
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