New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, 102. köideThomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Thomas Hood, Theodore Edward Hook, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth Henry Colburn, 1854 |
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Page 253
... Balaklava- the Portus Symbolorum and Genoese Cimbalo - to Sebastopol , ancient Ctenus , the remains of which still exist , and whose boundaries have been the scene of many a sanguinary conflict . Here arose that colony of the Greeks of ...
... Balaklava- the Portus Symbolorum and Genoese Cimbalo - to Sebastopol , ancient Ctenus , the remains of which still exist , and whose boundaries have been the scene of many a sanguinary conflict . Here arose that colony of the Greeks of ...
Page 254
... Balaklava - the beautiful port ; another minute and all the heights were commanded by the victorious soldiery of Albion , and at that very moment , by another strange coup de théâtre - one which must have struck awe into the small ...
... Balaklava - the beautiful port ; another minute and all the heights were commanded by the victorious soldiery of Albion , and at that very moment , by another strange coup de théâtre - one which must have struck awe into the small ...
Page 260
... to go round the bay and fortress , and seizing upon the little port of Balaklava , advance upon it from the south , or the Heracleontic Chersonesus . The valley of the Balbek , in which this council 260 The War in the Crimea .
... to go round the bay and fortress , and seizing upon the little port of Balaklava , advance upon it from the south , or the Heracleontic Chersonesus . The valley of the Balbek , in which this council 260 The War in the Crimea .
Page 262
... Balaklava ; and so well was this extraordinary service per- formed , that Mr. Maxse reached the fleet at four A.M. , and before noon the Agamemnon was off the " beautiful port . " The next morning , the 26th , the army pushed on at an ...
... Balaklava ; and so well was this extraordinary service per- formed , that Mr. Maxse reached the fleet at four A.M. , and before noon the Agamemnon was off the " beautiful port . " The next morning , the 26th , the army pushed on at an ...
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... Balaklava from the land side , " that this tranquil inlet , surrounded on all sides by steep hills , was part of the ... Balaklava . From this elevated point the Genoese , once masters of the whole coast , scanned the sea like birds of ...
... Balaklava from the land side , " that this tranquil inlet , surrounded on all sides by steep hills , was part of the ... Balaklava . From this elevated point the Genoese , once masters of the whole coast , scanned the sea like birds of ...
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