Sevastopol in History

Conducts the Blockade of Sevastopol.

Reports British army hardship for The Times.

Allied troops (British, French and Ottoman) landed in the Crimea and besieged the city of Sevastopol, home of the Tsar's Black Sea Fleet which threatened the Mediterranean.

At the start of October, French and British engineers, moving from their base at Balaclava, began to direct the building of siege lines along the Chersonese uplands to the south of Sevastopol.

Faces supply collapse during the first Crimean winter.

While Totleben extended the fortifications around the Redan, the Flagstaff Bastion and the Malakoff, the British chief engineer John Burgoyne sought to take the Malakoff, which he saw as the key to Sevastopol.

Sevastopol surrenders after the French capture Malakoff.

Resigns as prime minister amid parliamentary and public criticism of British wartime administration.

Raglan and his staff are blamed by the press and the Government for the hardships and sufferings of the British soldiers in the terrible Crimean winter before the Siege of Sevastopol, owing to shortages of food and clothing.

Returns to command duties and serves during the later stages of the siege after recovering from wounds.

A new railway, the "Grand Crimean Central Railway" built by the contractors Thomas Brassey and Samuel Peto, was used to bring supplies from Balaclava to the siege lines, delivering more than five hundred guns and plentiful ammunition.

A new railway, the "Grand Crimean Central Railway" built by the contractors Thomas Brassey and Samuel Peto, was used to bring supplies from Balaclava to the siege lines, delivering more than five hundred guns and plentiful ammunition.

Produces detailed drawings of the siege, camps and battlefields for publication in Britain.

The Government is defeated over conditions facing the troops in the Crimea

Commands British forces as the Allies renew their bombardment of Sevastopol in April.

Orders an attack on the Great Redan that fails.

Commands British forces during the unsuccessful assault on the Great Redan on 18 June.

Succeeds Raglan in command of the British army.

Dies during the siege after the failed June assaults.

Serves with the Naval Brigade and helps operate heavy guns during the siege of Sevastopol.

Leads troops during the British assault on the Great Redan and gains prominence for his conduct.

Directs British attacks against the Great Redan.

Commands the British Light Division during the final assault on the Great Redan.

Commands the Second Division involved in the final British assault on the Great Redan.