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17: 75:'s annexation of Crimea and construction of earth fortifications at the entrance to Sevastopol Bay on the night of 15 June 1778, within range of ten Ottoman ships then offshore. In 1794, also on Suvorov's orders, a two-tier stone and earth battery was built to designs by 91:
and then Engineer-Colonel Pavlovsky. Its main material was especially strong stone, still mined in Kilen-balka near the city. Shaped like a horse-shoe with a flat roof, the building also contains a barracks. The entrance was designed to create a killing-zone covered by
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In 1834 it was decided to demolish de Wollant's fort and replace it with a stone casemate battery, taking into account more modern developments in fortification design. The new battery was designed by Engineer-Colonel
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Brown, D. K. (1979). Roberts, John (ed.). "Shells at Sevastopol". Warship. London: Conway Maritime Press, Volume III, page 78.
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still felt able to cruise off the peninsula. They were dissuaded from doing so by
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Despite renouncing its claims to Crimea in the 1774
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Sevastopol
Crimea
Grand Duke Konstantin Pavlovich
Alexander I of Russia
Russian Geographical Society
Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca
Ottoman Empire
Alexander Suvorov
François Sainte de Wollant
Karl Burno
Gustav Efimovich von Volkersam
loopholes
Crimean War
HMS London
HMS Agamemnon
HMS Bellerophon
Napoléon
Battle of Kinburn
HMS Terrible
HMS Princess Royal
barbette
casemates
Siege of Sevastopol
Black Sea Fleet
95th Infantry Division
"Museum site"
"Guarding Sevastopol for 200 Years"
"Constantine Battery"
"Constantine Battery"

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