(Siege of Sebastopol, 1854-5). Journal of the operations conducted by the Corps of royal engineers, by H.C. Elphinstone (sir H.D. Jones) Pt.1,2. [With] Maps and plans. by W.E.M. Reilly [entitled] An account of the artillery operations conducted by the Royal artillery and Royal naval brigade, 3. rész1859 |
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11th Battalion 13-inch mortars 13-inch shells 32-pounder gun 8-inch gun 9-pounder ammunition APPENDIX April arrived from England Assistant-Surgeon August Balaklava Barrack battery Bouches à feu Brigade this day Brigadier-General Dacres burst Captain Carcasses Casualties Commanding Royal Artillery Commanding Siege Train commenced Company Crimea daylight depôts duty E. C. WARDE enemy Field Batteries Fourth Bombardment FOURTH PERIOD French fuzes Grand Total Gun and Mortar gun carriage disabled gun disabled Gunners heavy fire Inkermann joined the Naval July June June-Sept Lancaster Left Attack Left Attack.-Wounded Lieut.-Col Lieut.-Colonel Lieutenant LORD PANMURE LORD RAGLAN Malakoff Mamelon Mate matériel Midshipman morning Mortar Battery Naval Brigade night Non-commissioned officers Number of Guns Number of Rounds obusier parties Redan rifle-pits Right Attack Right Attack.-1 Right Attack.-Killed Right Attack.-Wounded Rodney round shot Rounds per Gun Royal Horse Artillery Royal Navy Russians Seamen Second Bombardment SECOND PERIOD Sept.-Nov Signed Stephen Lushington unserviceable waggons Woronzoff Road دو
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191. oldal - About 1 1 o'clock the! enemy commenced exploding their magazines, and Sir Colin Campbell, having ordered a small party to advance cautiously to examine the Redan, found the work abandoned ; he did not, however, deem it necessary to occupy it until daylight. The evacuation of the town by the enemy was made manifest during the night. Great fires appeared in every part, accompanied by large explosions, under the cover of which the enemy succeeded in withdrawing their troops to the north side, by means...
125. oldal - Malakhoff works the next morning, and that the English should assail the Redan as soon after as I might consider it desirable. It was at first proposed that the artillery fire should be resumed on the morning of the 18th, and should be kept up for about two hours, for the purpose of destroying any works the enemy might have thrown up in the night, and of opening passages through the abattis that covered the Redan ; but on the evening of the 17th it was intimated to me by General Pelissier that he...
20. oldal - ... as yet far from being subdued, neither is a serious diminution of their fire perceivable. Our fire has also been constant and effective ; but the enemy, having at their disposal large bodies of men and the resources of the fleet and arsenal at their command, have been enabled by unceasing exertion to repair their redoubts to a certain extent, and to replace many of the guns that have been destroyed in a very short space of time; and to resume their fire from works which we had succeeded in silencing.
162. oldal - Balaklava was to have been attacked by one portion of their army, whilst the heights on which we now are, were to have been stormed with the other ; at the same time a vigorous sortie was to have been made from the town on the French works on our extreme left, from the Quarantine, and another on the works on our extreme right on Mount Sapoune.
126. oldal - The superiority of our fire on the day, we opened led both General Pelissier and myself, and the officers of the Artillery and ! Engineers of the two services, and the armies in general, to conclude that the Russian artillery fire was in a great measure subdued, and that the operation we projected could be undertaken with every prospect of success.
113. oldal - Tower ; but this it had not been in contemplation to assail, and the troops were brought back and finally established in the enemy's works, from which the latter did not succeed in expelling them, though the fire of musketry and cannon which was brought to bear upon them was tremendous.
191. oldal - It was arranged that the assaulting column of 1,000 men should be formed by equal numbers of these two divisions, the column of the Light Division to lead, that of the Second to follow. " They left the trenches at the preconcerted signal, and moved across the ground preceded by a covering party of 200 men, and a ladder party of 320.
126. oldal - I never before witnessed such a continued and heavy fire of grape, combined with musketry, from the enemy's works, which appeared to be fully manned; and the long list of killed and wounded in the Light and Fourth Divisions, and the seamen of the Naval Brigade, under Capt. Peel, who was unfortunately wounded, though not severely, will show that a very large proportion of those that went forward fell.
191. oldal - I determined that the Second and Light Divisions should have the honour of the assault, from the circumstance of their having defended the batteries and approaches against the Redan for so many months, and from the intimate knowledge they possessed of the ground. The fire of our Artillery having made as much of a breach as possible in the salient of the Redan...
192. oldal - Sir Houston Stewart, has contributed most materially to the success of our undertaking; and here, perhaps, I may be permitted to say that, if it had pleased God that the successful result of this memorable siege should have been reported by my ever-to-be-lamented predecessor in this command, I am sure that it would have been one of his most pleasing duties to express the deep sense which I know he entertained of the invaluable assistance and counsel he received on all occasions from Sir Edmund Lyons....