Alexander Turnbull Library | Licence: All Rights Reserved
Alexander Turnbull Library | Licence: All Rights Reserved

French troops on the Plain of Balaclava receiving the Russian General in Chief.

Date

[1856?]

Collective Title

Warre, Henry James, 1819-1898 :Camp, Crimea, March 1855. Sketches 1856.

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Description

A long line of French troops strung across a plain flanked by hills, French flags showing and several cannons firing. On the hills in the background are rows of military tents, and a few individual figures, some on horseback, can be seen behing the massed troops.

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Location

Balaklava, Crimean Peninsula