The 1906 caption reads: “FINAL ASSAULT AT SEBASTOPOL.—This brings us down to the war in the Crimea when, in 1854, England, France, and Italy united to check the Russian advance on Constantinople. Sebastopol, the chief Russian stronghold on the Black Sea, was besieged for a year before it was finally captured. We see here the English column of the besiegers swarming up the walls in the final and successful assault.” In 1854-55, thirteen Allied divisions and one Allied brigade (total strength 60,000) began the last assault on the Crimean port city of Sebastapol. The British assault on the Great

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The 1906 caption reads: “FINAL ASSAULT AT SEBASTOPOL.—This brings us down to the war in the Crimea when, in 1854, England, France, and Italy united to check the Russian advance on Constantinople. Sebastopol, the chief Russian stronghold on the Black Sea, was besieged for a year before it was finally captured. We see here the English column of the besiegers swarming up the walls in the final and successful assault.” In 1854-55, thirteen Allied divisions and one Allied brigade (total strength 60,000) began the last assault on the Crimean port city of Sebastapol. The British assault on the Great Redan failed, but the French, under General MacMahon, managed to seize the Malakoff redoubt and the Little Redan, making the Russian defensive position untenable.

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