Date of the Siege of Sevastopol:September 1854 to September 1855 Account of the Siege of Sevastopol: The central theme running through the Crimean War was the appalling siege of Sevastopol, a foretaste of the trench fighting of the American Civil War, ten years later, and finally the First Wo...
a siege assault was launched againstSevastopolthough it was not until July 3 that the fortress, and with it the wholeCrimean Peninsula, was completely in German hands. On June 10 the Germans exploited their Izyum wedge by forcing the passage of the Donets and gaining a bridgehead on the nort...