NAM.1979-07-145-1

Expedition in the Crimea / Landing of the Allied Troops 14 September 1854. Coloured lithograph by Max Beeger and A Faure after 'Lieutenant R', published by Bulla Freres in Paris, Ferd. Ebner in Berlin, E Gambart and Co in London and Emile Seitz in New York, 1854. Associated with the Crimean War (1854-1856). The Allied expedition had left for the Crimea still uncertain of where it was to land, and only after Lord Raglan had undertaken a personal reconnaissance of the coastline aboard the 'Caradoc' was it determined to disembark at Kalamita Bay, a long sandy beach 50 kilometres north of Sevastopol. It took five days for the disembarkation to be completed; the British, unlike the French and Turks, had sailed with a brigade of light cavalry aboard, and landing horses over an open beach was a time-consuming process.

Crimean War (1854-1856)