The Invasion of the Crimea: Battle of Inkerman. 1st ed. 1875

כריכה קדמית
W. Blackwood and sons, 1875
 

תוכן

XIV
40
The conditions under which he might march to the support of
41
VI
44
DISPOSITIONS FOR A GENERAL ENGAGEMENT
48
The numerical strength of the contending armies
52
The first intelligence of the attack
65
Magnitude of the results that might have followed a Russian victory
73
The part taken by the garrison in the Karabel Faubourg
80
Result of the efforts made by the garrison
87
Fixed batteries and ships by which the Russian army might be aided
100
IV
106
Prince Mentschikoffs noninterference
112
II
118
The plan of defence conceived by Evans
124
Lord Raglans order to bring up guns from the siegetrain park
129
X
133
Junction of the Borodino with the Taroutine battalions Their
135
Arrival of the first English reinforcements
139
Their overthrow under a fire of caseshot delivered by Turner from
140
Lieutenant Hugh Cliffords exploit against the Underroad Column
143
The forces he was confronting
149
Egertons unrelenting pursuit
155
Their retreat pursued by footsoldiers
160
Retreat of all the four Borodino battalions
166
XXII
171
The failure of numerical strength in each separate encounter
174
The neutralised part of their force
180
The enemys entire change of his fighting battalions not perceptible
187
The Duke of Cambridges expedition in search of reinforcements
189
The force under Adams drawn back towards Mount Head
194
The Duke being left unmolested on his left continues his advance
199
Position of the two battalions of the Guards now formed up together
205
From the 4th Division
210
Advance of the assailing battalions
216
The opposing forces standing at bay
222
Reinforcements brought to the Kitspur
225
The last of the enemys attacks on the Kitspur
234
Troops on the Duke of Cambridges left front as well as in his rear
272
The double peril to which the colours were now exposed
278
Extrication of Burnaby and the other survivors of his little rear
286
Retrospect of the fights on the Kitspur
292
The centre
294
But charged and driven back by the men of the 30th
300
To be met by near 400 fresh troops under General Goldie
306
THIRD PERIOD
314
The great trunk column
317
Continued advance of the great trunk column 336
318
Attack on Boothbys demibattery at the western extremity of
323
Attack on the right half of Turners battery
329
men of the 55th rallied and reformed
334
Forces that could be collected to meet it
337
Preparation for the combat between the great trunk column
344
Colonel Daubeneys singular charge
350
Engagement between the right wing of the enemys assailing forces
354
The French 6th of the Line driven back
361
The succour obtained by Ramsay Stuart
367
The appeal which changed his resolve and hurried him into
381
III
388
Advance of a Russian column on Bosquets left
394
Present effect of the reverse sustained by the French
398
The enemys inaction
400
The Barrier still held fast
406
II
412
The enemys hold now only to be challenged by 3000 English and
417
Lord West
423
The beginning of the retreat descried by Codrington
429
oclock The enemys retreat accomplished and the Inkerman
443
CLOSE OF THE GENERAL ENGAGEMENT
455
How the Allies abstained from using their victory as a means to
480
Russian forces engaged in field operations during
486
Table showing the numbers of the 2d Division out
500
Nominal return of officers killed and wounded
506
The Allies in jeopardy 399 1
1
222
27

מונחים וביטויים נפוצים

קטעים בולטים

עמוד 25 - Archers, the Queen's Body-Guard for Scotland. By JAMES BALFOUR PAUL, Advocate of the Scottish Bar. Crown 4to, with Portraits and other Illustrations. £2, 2s.
עמוד 29 - NICHOLSON. A Manual of Zoology, for the use of Students. With a General Introduction on the Principles of Zoology. By...
עמוד 17 - INDEX GEOGRAPHICUS : Being a List, alphabetically arranged, of the Principal Places on the Globe, with the Countries and Subdivisions of the Countries in which they are situated, and their Latitudes and Longitudes.
עמוד 6 - Agricola's Invasion to the Extinction of the last Jacobite Insurrection. By JOHN HILL BURTON. DCL, Historiographer-Royal for Scotland. New and Enlarged Edition, 8 vols., and Index. Crown 8vo, £3, 3s. History of the British Empire during the Reign of Queen Anne.
עמוד 2 - PEOPLE'S EDITION, 31s. 6d. Life of John Duke of Marlborough. With some Account of his Contemporaries, and of the War of the Succession.
עמוד 21 - Memoir of Count de Montalembert. A Chapter of Recent French History. By Mrs OLIPHANT, Author of the 'Life of Edward Irving,
עמוד 26 - Foster and others, fcap., gilt cloth, 3s. 6d., or with edges gilt, 4s. PORT ROYAL LOGIC. Translated from the French ; with Introduction, Notes, and Appendix.
עמוד 24 - OSSIAN. The Poems of Ossian in the Original Gaelic. With a Literal Translation into English, and a Dissertation on the Authenticity of the Poems.
עמוד 30 - The Book of the Farm,' £2, 2s. Catechism of Practical Agriculture. With Engravings, is. STEWART. Advice to Purchasers of Horses. By JOHN STEWART, VS Author of 'Stable Economy.' 2s. 6d. Stable Economy. A Treatise on the Management of Horses in relation to Stabling, Grooming, Feeding, Watering, and Working. Seventh Edition, fcap. 8vo, 6s. 6d.
עמוד 11 - HAMILTON. Lectures on Metaphysics. By Sir WILLIAM HAMILTON, Bart. , Professor of Logic and Metaphysics in the University of Edinburgh. Edited by the Rev. HL MANSEL, BD, LL.D., Dean of St Paul's ; and JOHN VEITCH, MA, Professor of Logic and Rhetoric, Glasgow.

מידע ביבליוגרפי