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NY: The Cosmopolitan Publishing Company, 1905. Book. VG. Soft cover. 8vo. 10pp extract, printed in double columns, 11 illustrations after contemporary prints including 2 full-page plates, salvaged from a damaged issue of The Cosmopolitan Magazine, Volume XXXVIII, No. 3, January, 1905. The unsuccessful defense of Sevastopol by the Russians during the Crimean War. Illustrations include a view of the city and harbor of Sevastopol from the Black Sea, the night surprise of the Russians by the French, a view of part of the interior of the Redan, British soldiers working in the trenches before the battle, the French army storming the defenses of the Malakoff Tower, a bird's-eye view of the seat of the war in the Crimea, the capture of the Malakoff Tower on September 8, 1855, evacuation of Sevastopol by the Russians on September 8th and 9th, transports and war-ships of the Allies in the harbor of Balaklava, etc. Housed in protective mylar report cover..