Memories of the Crimean War, January 1855 to June 1856St. Catherine Press, 1911 - 206 σελίδες "Reid (1833-1924), an assistant surgeon in the 90th Light Infantry, provides an account based upon letters sent home during his service on Russian soil between 2 February 1855 and 14 June 1856 (except for a period between early August and early September 1855, when he was invalided to Scutari). After his return from Scutari, Reid describes the terrible losses amongst the British and French forces in the trenches due to their proximity to the Russian lines and how in the wake of the failed British assault on the Redan on 8 September, he worked non-stop for forty-eight hours. His final letters describe the festivities following the fall of Sevastopol and his visits to the Russian lines following the Treaty of Paris" (Cross, Anthony: In the Land of Romanovs, p.216)"--Antiquarian bookseller's description, 2015. |
Άλλες εκδόσεις - Προβολή όλων
Συχνά εμφανιζόμενοι όροι και φράσεις
90th Regiment afterwards Allies ammunition Army Article Artillery assault Assistant Surgeon attack Baidar Balaklava Batt battle Black Sea bombardment Brigade bullets camp cannon cannonading Captain Cavalry Colonel comfortable command Crimea dead duty enemy England English explosion February 24 fight fire force Fort Alexander French front ground guns harbour heavy honour hospital Infantry Inkerman Kadikoi Kamiesch Kertch killed Lieutenant Light Division Lord Raglan loss Majesty the Emperor Major Malakoff Mamelon March medical officers military Miss Nightingale morning musketry night North side o'clock Omar Pasha parapet party Pelissier picket house powers present treaty ravine Redan rifle pits river rode round shot Russian Russian batteries Sardinian Scutari Sebastopol sent September severely wounded ship shot and shell sick siege Sir William Codrington snow soldiers soon splendid Staff storm Sublime Porte supply Tchernaya tent terrible took place town troops whole