Russia's Sea-Power, Past And Present: Or, the Rise of the Russian Navy
Russia's Sea-Power, Past And Present: Or, the Rise of the Russian Navy
George Sydenham Clarke Sydenham of Combe
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In addition to the loss due to the blockade Digitized by Google 96 THE CRIMEAN WAR. [Ch. and the destruction efiected at Bomar- sund, Sveaborg, and other places, the menace to the Baltic coast-line sufficed for some time to detain a large number of Russian troops in the northern pro- vinces, and thus to indirectly aid the siege of Sebastopol. Whether this detention was wholly justified, in view of the marked want of enterprise shown by the British naval commanders, is another matter. The Russia...ns could not have foretold the extreme nervous- ness which Sir Charles Napier showed, or the reluctance of his successor to take the active measures against Svea- borg which were carried out without loss. In the White Sea and the Far East the operations of the Allies were of little importance ; but at Petropaulovski, on the East coast of Kamtschatka, a reverse occurred on August 30th, 1854, Digitized by Google VI.] RESULT DUE TO SEA-POWER. 97 when a landing party of seven hundred men was repulsed with heavy loss.
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