Battle of the Alma - sketched from the Mizen-Top of "Retribution", by Lieutenant Montagu O'Reilly, 1854. Crimean War, scene on 20 September from a British warship. 'The Russian report of the much more truthful than the ordinary bulletins from St. Petersburg, [and] confesses that the appearance of the French in that unexpected quarter was rather a damaging [The] dense mass of troops marching southward along the shore road to Sebastopol [consists of] French Infantry and Horse [The] Sketch represents the march of the English army soon after the co
Battle of the Alma - sketched from the Mizen-Top of "Retribution", by Lieutenant Montagu O'Reilly, 1854. Crimean War, scene on 20 September from a British warship. 'The Russian report of the much more truthful than the ordinary bulletins from St. Petersburg, [and] confesses that the appearance of the French in that unexpected quarter was rather a damaging [The] dense mass of troops marching southward along the shore road to Sebastopol [consists of] French Infantry and Horse [The] Sketch represents the march of the English army soon after the commencement of the attack. The English centre may be seen not far behind the smoke a little to the left of the centre marks the village of Burliuk, and vineyards near it, where a party of Russian rifles had taken up , from which they were speedily driven by our troops'. From "Illustrated London News", 1854.
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