Width: 573 mm Text: 418 mm

Siege of Sevastopol from the new 32 pounder Battery above the left attack picquet house. ‘The sketch I send you shews the creek which divides the two principal portions of the town of Sevastopol - this 32 Pr. Battery is manned by the navy and is intended to destroy the ship, the bridge of boats and those store-houses &c. in the valley. It will get hardly dealt with from the Barracks Battery which looks right at it - the wall descending obliquely to the vessel is a loop-holed wall, within is a garden in which are very heavy batteries. - New Batteries are opened behind the Redan and one in the town. I was shot at from an old gable which the Russian sentries were crouching just in front of the two store houses - I’ll turn them out of that - Extract from Capt. Biddulph’s letter enclosing the sketch, dated Sevastopol, October 23rd’.