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The English and French troops easily defeated the Russians, landed in the Crimea, and then laid siege to Sevastopol, an important Russian fortress on the Black Sea. Sevastopol fell after a long and terrible siege, and the so-called Crimean War came to a close.
One nearly always finds important towns at the two ends of a peninsula, like Hamburg and Lubeck, Venice and Genoa; though for naval purposes it is desirable to have a station at the head of the peninsula, to command both arms of the sea, as at Cherbourg, Sevastopol, or Gibraltar. Roads would then easily be formed across the base of the peninsula, and to its extreme point.
"You ask me to send you some verse. I accordingly send you a scrap of recent manufacture, and you will observe that instead of forwarding my epic on Sevastopol, I select something that is fitter for these present vernal love days than the blaster of heroic verse:
But Japanese luck again they were just too late; for at that moment the Russian fleet entered the protective zone of their shore batteries and, with a very poor attempt at bravado, slowed down to a speed of about six knots, while the Sevastopol, Pobieda, and Peresviet came steaming out to meet them.
Thus the right of residence was extended to the cities of Nicholayev and Sevastopol, which, though geographically situated within the Pale, had been legally placed outside of it. The obstructions in the way of temporary visits to the holy city of Kiev were mitigated.
"Why do you not ask the question which Balzac's old Tourangeois judge asks, whenever a culprit is brought before him, 'Who is she?" "Taking for granted that there was a woman at the bottom of every mishap? I understand you," said the Major, with a sad smile. "Now let you and me walk a little together, and look at the Echinoid another day or when I return from Sevastopol " Tom went out with him.
"Very well," said Taffy, "let's do it." "No; you didn't suggest it. I hate boys who have to be told." Taffy was huffed, and pretended to return to his book. By-and-by she called up to him: "Tell me, what's written on this gun of yours?" "Sevastopol that's a Russian town. The English took it by storm." "What! the soldiers over there?" "No, they're only bandsmen; and they're too young.
At Sevastopol on May 19, he declared that circumstances might compel him "to defend by force of arms the dignity of the Empire" a threat probably aimed at Bulgaria and Turkey. On his return to Moscow he received an enthusiastic welcome from the fervid Slavophils of the old Russian capital, the Mayor expressing in his address the hope that "the cross of Christ will soon shine on St.
As the previous narrative has shown, for many ages this gigantic power has been steadily advancing towards Constantinople. The Russian flag now girdles the Euxine Sea, and notwithstanding the recent check at Sevastopol, Russia is pressing on with resistless strides towards the possession of the Hellespont.
She would go back to bed thinking of Sasha, who lay sound asleep in the next room, sometimes crying out in his sleep: "I'll give it you! Get away! Shut up!" ON the deck of a steamer sailing from Odessa to Sevastopol, a rather good-looking gentleman, with a little round beard, came up to me to smoke, and said: "Notice those Germans sitting near the shelter?
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