Identifier: decisivebattless00knox (find matches)
Title: Decisive battles since Waterloo : the most important military events from 1815 to 1887
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Knox, Thomas Wallace, 1835-1896
Subjects: Monitor (Ironclad) Battles Military history Military art and science Naval battles Naval history Naval art and science Hampton Roads, Battle of, Va., 1862
Publisher: New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons New Rochelle, N.Y. : Knickerbocker Press
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: State of Indiana through the Indiana State Library

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t was useless ;the Turkish commander could not be seen. A generalmuster of all the ships was ordered by Admiral Codring-ton, Commander-in-Chief of the squadron. The strength of the combined squadron was as follows: ENGLISH. 4 frigates,I cutter,4 brigs, and 3 line-of-battle ships, all under the command of Ad-miral Codrington. RUSSIAN. 4 frigates, and 4 line-of-battle ships, Count Heiden commanding. y commanded by Rear-Ad-miral De Rigny. FRENCH. 1 double-banked frigate, 2 cutters, 3 line-of-battle ships, andI frigate, The Ottoman fleet was as follows :13 frigates, 3 line-of-battle ships, 4 double-banked frigates,28 brigs, 5 schooners, 30 corvettes, and 6 fire brigs, making a total of 89, excluding 41 trans-ports. The allied fleet mounted 1,324 guns, while the combinedTurkish and Egyptian fleet mounted 2,240 guns. To thissuperiority in the number of guns on board must be addedthe batteries on shore, which were all in the hands of theTurks. But the Christians had a point in their favor in
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4i 42 DECISIVE BATTLES SINCE WATERLOO. their superiority in ships of the line, of which they pos-sessed ten, while the Turks had but three ; if the battlehad been fought in the open sea, it would have been ofbrief duration, but this advantage was very much lost inthe Bay of Navarino, where the Turkish ships werecrowded together under the batteries in the form of asemicircle, with their broadsides turned to the centre ofthe bay. The Bay of Navarino is four miles long and twomiles wide. It is shaped like a horseshoe, and forms agood-sized harbor. At the narrowing ends, about a mileapart, were batteries, placed to sweep the entire plain infront. The united Egyptian and Turkish fleet was an-chored in this bay, disposed in the shape of a crescent, theEgyptian portion being stationed in the centre. The allied fleet entered the Bay of Navarino about twooclock on the afternoon of October 20, 1827. The ad-vance was in two columns, the British and French formingthe starboard column and the Russ

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