The Lyttelton Times Saturday, Jan. 13, 1855.
invest the place, and we therefore presume that means will be found to employ it for the service of the besieging arm}', and to cut it off from the besieged. When once the positions encompassing and commanding the port and town are occupied,by the allied forces, Sebastopol has no means of excluding its assailants or prolonging its defence. The fire of its innumerable forts and batteries is without exception turned in the opposite direction from the side now attacked, and the elevation of the ground behind the town places it at the mercy of any enemy who has once raised his battering train to those heights.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume V, Issue 230, 13 January 1855, Page 4
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