. Life and times of William E. Gladstone : an account of his ancestry and boyhood, his career at Eton and Oxford, his entrance into public life, his rise to leadership and fame, his genius as statesman and author, and his influence on the progress of the nineteenth century. Europehad made considerable headway against the enemy. It was at this juncturethat Omar Pasha appeared as the leader and hero of the Ottoman forces. The Russians were under command of Prince IMenshikoff, the PInglishunder Lord Raglan, and the French under Marshal Pelissier. On the 20thof September, 1854, a bloody battle was
. Life and times of William E. Gladstone : an account of his ancestry and boyhood, his career at Eton and Oxford, his entrance into public life, his rise to leadership and fame, his genius as statesman and author, and his influence on the progress of the nineteenth century. Europehad made considerable headway against the enemy. It was at this juncturethat Omar Pasha appeared as the leader and hero of the Ottoman forces. The Russians were under command of Prince IMenshikoff, the PInglishunder Lord Raglan, and the French under Marshal Pelissier. On the 20thof September, 1854, a bloody battle was fought on the river Alma. Herethe Russians were defeated, and were compelled to fall back in the directionof their strong fortress, Sebastopol, at the southeastern extremity of thepeninsula. Here the war was focused. The Russians were strongly rein-forced late in the autumn, and Menshikoff united his divisions behind theworks of Sebastopol. On the 25th of September the heights of Balaklava,south of the Russian position, were seized by the British under Lord Raglan,and on the 9th of October the siege of Sebastopol was begun. For nearly eleven months the allies held that strong fortress in theirgrip. They succeeded before winter in bringing their batteries to bear on. FIELD .MARSHAL LORD RAGLAN. (Commander in Chief of the British Army iathe Crimea.) FRENCH ALLIANCE AND CRIMEAN WAR. 225 the town ; but the Russians for their part succeeded in blockading withsunken vessels and other obstructions the entrance to the harbor. Thesieee that ensued was one of the most remarkable in history. The Russiansmade two tremendous sallies, the first on the night of the 25th of October,at Balaklava. This place was held by a combined force of Turks andEnglish. The former gave way from four redoubts, which were carried bythe assailants; but at the crisis of the battle the British Highlanders came
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