Battle of the Chernaya
| date | August 4th jul. / August 16, 1855 greg. |
|---|---|
| place | Sevastopol on the Chorna River , Crimea |
| output | Allied victory |
| consequences | Continuation of the siege of Sevastopol |
| Parties to the conflict | |
|---|---|
| Commander | |
| Troop strength | |
| 58,000 | 37,000 |
| losses | |
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8,015 total losses |
1,700 dead, missing and wounded |
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The Battle of the Chernaya ( Russian Сражение на Чёрной речке ) was a battle of the Crimean War and the last attempt of the Imperial Russian Army to lift the siege of Sevastopol and to enforce a solution to the war that was favorable to Russia by means of a victory .
The Battle of the Chernaya took place on August 16, 1855 near Sevastopol on both banks of the river Chorna (Russian: Chornaya ) in the south of the Crimean peninsula . The attack of the Russian troops on the right flank of the siege army, consisting of the allied troops of France , the Kingdom of Sardinia and the Ottoman Empire, was the only sortie from Sevastopol under the Russian commander-in-chief Mikhail Gorchakov .
The outnumbered but poorly armed Russian infantry tried to cross the chorna without the support of cavalry or artillery and to take the heights beyond. The attempt ended in a bloody massacre in which the Russians suffered 8,000–9,000 men in losses.
The Russian writer and battle participant Leo Tolstoy wrote the satirical poem The Song of the Battle of the Chornaya River on August 4, 1855 ( Russian Песня про сражение на реке Черной 4 августа 1855 г. ).
literature
- Gaston Bodar: Military-Historical War Lexicon. Verlag CW Stern, Vienna and Leipzig 1908, page 516.
- Harold E. Raugh: The Victorians at War, 1815-1914: An Encyclopedia of British Military History . ABC-CLIO, 2004, ISBN 978-1-57607-925-6
- The battle of the Chernaya . In: The Gazebo . Issue 39, 1855, pp. 521 ( full text [ Wikisource ]).
- Friedrich Lorentz : Battle of the Chernaya. In: The latest history from the Vienna Treaties to the Peace of Paris (1815–1856) . P. 464
Web links
- The Battle of the Chernaya (August 16) Die Grenzboten: Journal for Politics, Literature and Art (1841–1922) Vol. 14, pp. 428–431, Berlin, Ger. Verl, 1855; Online edition; Bremen, State and University Library, 1997–1999
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Raugh, p. 95
- ↑ Gorchakov . In: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon . 4th edition. Volume 7, Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1885–1892, p. 528.
- ^ Crimean War - Battle of the Chornaya River, August 16, 1855 on laspi.com; accessed on December 2, 2015
- ↑ Erich Berneker: Leo Tolstoy Biography. P. 29.
- ↑ A song about the battle of the Chornaya River August 4, 1855 in Leo Tolstoy's collected works; accessed on December 2, 2015 (Russian)
- ↑ Eugen Schuyler: Memories of Count Leo Tolstoy. P. 8
Coordinates: 44 ° 33 '32 " N , 33 ° 38' 49" E