Название: The Crimean War at Sea: The Naval Campaigns Against Russia 1854-56 Автор: Peter Duckers Издательство: Pen and Sword ISBN: 1848842678 Год: 2011 Страниц: 256 Язык: английский Формат: epub Размер: 10.1 MB
Too often historical writing on the Russian War of 1854-56 focuses narrowly on the land campaign fought in the Crimean peninsula in the Black Sea. The wider war waged at sea by the British and French navies against the Russians is ignored. The allied navies aimed to strike at Russian interests anywhere in the world where naval force could be brought to bear, and as a result campaigns were waged in the Baltic, the Black Sea, the White Sea, on the Russian Pacific coast and in the Sea of Azoff.
Yet it is the land campaign in the Crimea that shapes our understanding of events. In this graphic and original study, Peter Duckers seeks to set the record straight. He shows how these neglected naval campaigns were remarkably successful, in contrast to the wretched failures that beset the British army on land. Allied warships ranged across Russian waters sinking shipping, disrupting trade, raiding ports, bombarding fortresses, destroying vast quantities of stores and shelling coastal towns. The scale and intensity of the naval operations embarked upon during the war are astonishing, and little appreciated, and this new book offers the first overall survey of them.
Contents:
List of Plates List of Maps and Plans Acknowledgements Note on Names and Illustrations Introduction 1.The Battle Fleets, 1854 2.The Baltic Campaign, 1854 3.Opening Moves in the Black Sea, Summer 1854 4.‘The Invasion of the Crimea’: the Navy Ashore 5.Operations in the White Sea, 1854–5 6.Operations in the Pacific, 1854–5 7.The Campaign in the Baltic, 1855 8.Scouring the Sea of Azoff, Summer 1855 9.Black Sea, 1855 and the Attack on Fort Kinburn Conclusion Chronology Appendix 1: The British Fleet Reviewed at Spithead, August 1853 Appendix 2: The Opposing Fleets at Sinope, 30 November 1853 Appendix 3: Russian Ships of the Black Sea Fleet at Sebastopol, 1854–5 Appendix 4: Russian Warships in the Baltic, 1854–5 Appendix 5: British Warships in the Baltic, 1854–5 Appendix 6: Napier’s Defence Appendix 7: Major Allied Warships in the Baltic, 1855 Appendix 8: British Warships in the Black Sea, 1854–5 Appendix 9: Ships Engaged at Kertch and in the Sea of Azoff, 1855 Appendix 10: British Ships Engaged in the Bombardment of Sebastopol, 17 October 1854 Appendix 11: Casualties in the Naval Bombardment, 17 October 1854. Appendix 12: Casualties to the Naval Brigade Appendix 13: Allied Warships in the Pacific, 1854–5 Appendix 14: Victoria Crosses Awarded for the Baltic, Crimea and Sea of Azoff Notes Bibliography Index
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