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View Larger Image Here.A Panoramic View of the Seat of War around Sebastopol, including Danubian Provinces, Turkey, Asia Minor, Southern Russia, and the Crimea, from a Survey by order of Louis Napoleon, Emperor of France.
Published by HIGGINS & BRADLEY, 20 Washington Street, Boston.
THE
POWERS OF EUROPE
AND
FALL OF SEBASTOPOL.
BY A BRITISH OFFICER.
ILLUSTRATED FROM SUPERIOR PHOTOGRAPHS.
BOSTON:
HIGGINS AND BRADLEY,
20 Washington Street.
1856.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1855, by
HIGGINS & BRADLEY,
In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the United States, for the
Southern District of New York.
PREFACE.
This work makes no pretensions to absolute originalitybeing partially a compilation, with incidents in the life of theAuthor, who was an actor in many of the scenes narrated. Hehas striven to be judicious in selecting, from the most authenticsources, only that which would be interesting, at this crisis, tothe general reader.
Some extracts are given entire; in other cases, long passageshave been abridged and condensed.
Information from a vast variety of sources has, in manyinstances, been put together, and presented in a new and moregraphic form.
Minute details, as far as practicable, have been avoided;whilst the whole ground has been, more or less, completelysurveyed. The Author has sought to make a popular volume,which might be read with pleasure, and be permanentlyserviceable as a book of reference.
The bloody sieges of Saragossa, Gerona, and Badajos, havebeen referred to more in detail to afford the opportunity ofcomparison with that of Sebastopol; while the battles of Austerlitzand Waterloo have been described for comparison withthose of Alma an