The Invasion of the Crimea: Its Origin and an Account of Its Progress Down to the Death of Lord RaglanCambridge University Press, 17 févr. 2011 - 592 pages Alexander William Kinglake (1809-1891) was a travel writer and historian. He witnessed the battle of the Alma and the Charge of the Light Brigade, and became well acquainted with the British commander, Lord Raglan. This work was commissioned by Lady Raglan to repair her husband's reputation, and Kinglake was given access to Raglan's papers, and to private and confidential state records. The eight volumes were published between 1863 and 1887. They were extremely successful commercially, but received mixed critical reviews, owing to the bias and prejudice shown by the author, and serious questions were raised about his use of the sources to which he was given exclusive access. However, the breadth of his research, corresponding with or interviewing participants in the war, and use of French, Turkish and Russian sources as well as British, gives lasting value to the work. Volume 5 includes the Battle of Inkerman. |
Table des matières
Balaclava still the object of the enemys designs | 1 |
SECOND PERIOD | 2 |
His guns on Shell Hill | 7 |
Continuation of the enemys efforts on Mount Inkerman | 13 |
Incursion of Russian cavalry horses | 19 |
The Dormant Commission | 20 |
Fresh troops and guns brought up by the enemy | 32 |
II | 33 |
Westward direction taken by a few | 259 |
The interposed läkoutsk battalion | 265 |
Seymour killed and Maitland wounded | 271 |
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 |
Opportune advance of the French 6th of the Line | 285 |
XVI | 291 |
The centre | 294 |
Position of the Allied armies | 35 |
The conditions under which he might march to the support of | 41 |
CHAPTER II | 48 |
The enemys projected front of battle | 49 |
Dannenbergs dispositions | 50 |
way | 51 |
The enemys plan | 56 |
CHAPTER III | 62 |
CHAPTER IV | 69 |
The part taken by the garrison in the Karabel Faubourg | 80 |
Result of the efforts made by the garrison | 87 |
The Saddletop Reach | 92 |
Its eastern moietyi e the East Sappers Road | 98 |
The value of the Inkerman ground as a defensive position | 104 |
The subsidiary directions framed by Soimonoff and Pauloff | 110 |
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 |
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 |
Result of the Russian attack up to this time | 142 |
Final discomfiture of the enemys turning movement | 145 |
Its advantage in respect of mounted officers | 151 |
Effect of Egertons victory upon the 3d and 4th Catherinburg bat | 157 |
XVIII | 161 |
XXII | 171 |
The two other third parts of the English infantry | 181 |
The enemys entire change of his fighting battalions not perceptible | 187 |
Adams forced back | 193 |
Array of the forces opposed to them | 198 |
advance of the Grenadier and Scots Fusilier | 198 |
The Grenadiers fronting eastward | 201 |
Second charge of the Scots Fusiliers | 207 |
The Duke of Cambridges expedition in search of reinforcements | 208 |
The Dukes return to the Kitspur | 214 |
Devolution of the command to Colonel F Seymour | 220 |
Reinforcements brought to the Kitspur | 225 |
The last of the enemys attacks on the Kitspur | 234 |
Instances of H R H with Cathcart to induce him to act in the | 240 |
Colonel Croftons charge with some men of the 20th | 246 |
Captain Burnaby | 248 |
Downward rush of the troops on each flank of the Battery | 254 |
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 |
These planted in battery by Colonel Collingwood Dickson | 373 |
Conditions under which Dannenberg would now have to act | 379 |
The appeal which changed his resolve and hurried him into | 382 |
III | 388 |
Advance of a Russian column on Bosquets left | 394 |
the French in retreat | 396 |
Despair of the French | 397 |
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 |
oclock P M Dannenbergs orders to begin the retreat | 428 |
Its discomfiture | 431 |
Dannenbergs method of conducting the retreat | 436 |
Its frustration by Colonel de Todleben | 442 |
By the French | 448 |
A M to 1 P M | 454 |
CLOSE OF THE GENERAL ENGAGEMENT | 455 |
The motives which caused the atrocities | 461 |
IV | 467 |
Real extent of the advantage possessed by the Allies in point | 474 |
Magnitude of the results that might have followed a Russian victory | 479 |
Strength of 2d Division present at battle of Inkerman | 485 |
Orders of the day and other papers issued by Russian | 491 |
Table showing the numbers of the 2d Division out | 500 |
99 | 503 |
Nominal return of officers killed and wounded | 506 |
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Expressions et termes fréquents
1st Period 2d Division 2d Period advance Allies army artillery ascend assailants attack Balaclava battle battle of Inkerman bayonet body Bosquet brigade brushwood camp Canrobert Captain Careenage Ravine Catherinburg battalion CHAP charge Chersonese close Codrington Colonel combat command company columns crest Crimea Dannenberg defence Duke of Cambridge east Egerton enemy enemy's English Heights fight fire flank force Fore Ridge forward French front Goodlake Grenadier Guards Grenadiers ground Guards guns Home Ridge Iäkoutsk infantry Inker Kitspur Lancaster battery Lord Raglan masses ment mist Mount Inkerman moved numbers officer once outposts parapet Pauloff Pennefather Pennefather's Percy Herbert pickets position Post-road Prince Mentschikoff's Quarry Ravine rear regiment reinforcements retreat Rifles Russians Saddle-top Reach Sandbag Battery Sapper's Road Sebastopol Shell Hill Sir George Brown Sir George Cathcart slopes Soimonoff soldiery steeps stood strength talions Taroutine Tchernaya tion Victoria Ridge whilst whole wing wounded СНАР