Identifier: grandestcenturyi00nort (find matches)
Title: Grandest century in the world's history; containing a full and graphic account of the marvelous achievements of one hundred years, including great battles and conquests; the rise and fall of nations; wonderful growth and progress of the United States ... etc., etc
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Northrop, Henry Davenport, 1836-1909
Subjects: Nineteenth century
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa., National publishing co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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his attack weak-ened the English defence at Inkerman. His advance was, however, left todepend upon a contingency that neveroccurred—and while he waited for ithis 22,000 men were of absolutely nouse in the fight. Rough Battle Field,The whole surface of the field of bat-tle was thickly covered with brushwoodand low coppice, amidst which cragsand rocky boulders reared their heads.In some places the woods gathered intodense forest glades, and in others theravines were steeply-scarped quarriesdifficult of access. Soimonoff started at 5 A. M., amiddarkness and mist, which so favoredhis march that he reached Mount In-kerman unobserved, and then and thereseizing its highest point. Shell Hill, heplaced his guns in battery on the crest 396 INKERMAN AND THE MALAKOFF. quite unknown to the British outposts.The night had been reported unusuallyquiet, although some fancied they heard fore the alarm was raised. They werepressed back fighting, while the gunson Shell. Hill opened a destructive fire.
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VIEW OF TOWN AND FORTRESS OF SEBASTOPOI.. the rumbling of distant wheels—thewheels, in fact, »f Pauloffs artillery.Just before dawn, too—it was Sundaymorning—all the bells of Sebastopolrang out a joyous peal, not for worship,but to stimulate the courage of the piousRussian soldiery. But outpost duty in those days wasimperfectly performed, and the enemywas on top of the British pickets be- General Pennefather, who was in tem-porary command of the 2d division^realized at once that serious events wereat hand. It was not in his nature toretreat before the coming storm. Hewas a finefighter ; in another rankof life he would have been in his ele-ment with a bit of a twig at Donny-brook Fair. Whenever you see ahead, hit it was his favorite maxim in iNkErman and th^ malakoff. 39^ war; and now, where a more cautiousleader would have drawn off and linedthe Home Ridge in defensive battle, hethrust forward with all his meagre forcesto meet the Russian attack. This daring system was greatly

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