List on ebay 24-01-2025 SEVASTOPOL CRIMEAN PENINSULA RUSSIA 1856 MOTTE ANTIQUE PRINT US $97.95 Original Title: Sebastopol, vue prise de terre. Striking and highly detailed interesting 1855 original colored lithographic view depicting the most important fortifications of Sevastopol during the Crimean War (1853-1856). The legend includes 15 positions of forts and fortifications and the positions of the British and French fleets attacking the fortress. The siege of Sevastopol The siege of Sevastopol (at the time called in English the siege of Sebastopol) lasted from October 1854 until September 1855, during the Crimean War. The allies (French, Sardinian, Ottoman, and British) landed at Eupatoria on 14 September 1854, intending to make a triumphal march to Sevastopol, the capital of the Crimea, with 50,000 men. Major battles along the way were Alma (September 1854), Balaklava (October 1854), Inkerman (November 1854), Tchernaya (August 1855), Redan (September 1855), and, finally, Malakoff (September 1855). During the siege, the allied navy undertook six bombardments of the capital, on 17 October 1854; and on 9 April, 6 June, 17 June, 17 August, and 5 September 1855. The siege of Sevastopol is one of the last classic sieges in history. The city of Sevastopol was the home of the Tsar's Black Sea Fleet, which threatened the Mediterranean. The Russian field army withdrew before the allies could encircle it. The siege was the culminating struggle for the strategic Russian port in 1854–55 and was the final episode in the Crimean War. During the Victorian Era, these battles were repeatedly memorialized. The Siege of Sevastopol was the subject of Crimean soldier Leo Tolstoy's Sebastopol Sketches and the subject of the first Russian feature film, Defence of Sevastopol. The Boulevard de Sйbastopol, a major artery in Paris, was named for the victory in the 1850s, while the Battle of Balaklava was made famous by Alfred, Lord Tennyson's poem "The Charge of the Light Brigade" and Robert Gibb's painting The Thin Red Line. A panorama of the siege itself was painted by Franz Roubaud. The Crimean War, fought from October 1853 to February 1856, was an armed conflict between the Russian Empire and an alliance of the Ottoman, British, French, and Sardinian forces. The root cause of the war has never been fully understood, but the stated impetus was to defend the rights of Christians in the Holy Land, with the Catholic interests supported by the French and the Greek Orthodox Church by the Russians. The more likely root was British and French concerns about Russian expansion into the Bosporus and Mediterranean at the cost of the declining Ottoman empire. Hostilities erupted in July 1853 when Russia invaded two Ottoman suzerainties known collectively as the Danubian Principalities, labeled here as Wallachia and Moldavia. The Ottomans immediately responded, fighting a defensive campaign that halted the Russian advance at Silistra, which the Russians besieged. Alarmed by the possibility of an Ottoman collapse, the British and French entered the war, sending troops and supplies to Gallipoli. They did not arrive at Silistra until after the Russians had withdrawn. By this time, public opinion in Britain and France, where discontent at the seemingly wasted effort and expense of sending armies to the Balkans, turned against the war. Hoping to finish the war quickly, the allies invaded the Crimean Peninsula in September, hoping to seize the Russian naval port of Sevastopol, thereby limiting Russian ability to wage war in the Black Sea arena. The supposedly 'quick and easy' siege lasted for eleven months. Russia finally sued for peace in March 1856 and in the subsequent Treaty of Paris, Russia lost its Black Sea ports, Wallachia and Moldavia gained a modicum of independence, and Christians in the Holy Land were given a degree of equality. Date: 1856 ( undated ) Dimensions: Paper size approx.: cm 44,6 x 30,1 Very strong and dark impression on good paper. Sheet umcolored. Wide. margins. Small foxing and browning. Sheet folded. Conditions are as you can see in the images.