Decisive battles since Waterloo : the most important military events from 1815 to 1887 . opol has been slowlyrising from her ruins ; her dockyards have been partiallyrestored, and an arsenal has been established at Nicolaieff,but it will yet be many years before the traces of thatterrible bombardment of September, 1855, will have beenremoved, and the streets of the sacred city presentthe appearance they did before the Allies began their CAPTURE OF THE MALAKOFF AND REDAN. 153 work of destruction. There are still entire blocks of ruinsin the heart of Sebastopol, and at almost every step thevisit
Decisive battles since Waterloo : the most important military events from 1815 to 1887 . opol has been slowlyrising from her ruins ; her dockyards have been partiallyrestored, and an arsenal has been established at Nicolaieff,but it will yet be many years before the traces of thatterrible bombardment of September, 1855, will have beenremoved, and the streets of the sacred city presentthe appearance they did before the Allies began their CAPTURE OF THE MALAKOFF AND REDAN. 153 work of destruction. There are still entire blocks of ruinsin the heart of Sebastopol, and at almost every step thevisitor of to-day is reminded of the memorable siege, andthe devastation it created. A railway connects the citywith Moscow and St. Petersburg, and the port has as-sumed a commercial importance that bids fair to surpassthat of Odessa. In 1885-86 its population increased morerapidly than at any time since the war, partly in conse-quence of the activity of the government in restoring itsnaval supremacy on the Black Sea, and partly owing tolarge shipments of wheat and other Russian CHAPTER X. LUCKNOW AND CAWNPORE—1857-8. On the 23d of June, 1757, Lord Clive defeated thearmy of Surajah Dowlah, Nabob of Bengal, on the fieldof Plassey, in a battle which ranks as one of the decisivebattles of India. Fifty years thereafter the Hindoo as-trologers predicted that the year 1857, the centenary ofPlassey, would witness the termination forever of theBritish power in India. Down to 1857 they continued tomake this prediction, and early in that year it was evidentthat a mutinous spirit prevailed in the army of Bengal army at that time comprised 22,698 Europeans,including the officers of native regiments, and 118,663sepoys, or native soldiers. The military authorities haddecided to arm the sepoys with Enfield rifles, and a newkind of cartridge, which was greased in order to adapt itto the improved weapon. These cartridges had to betorn with the teeth, in accordance with the ma
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