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...skirmishes and minor battles last week below Leningrad, on the Moscow front, in the Kalinin area near Smolensk west of the capital, below Kharkov where the Nazis advanced. Greatest of them all was the battle for Sevastopol, whose seizure was both a necessary conclusion to the Nazis' Crimean conquest and an essential prelude to further drives in the south...
...wrote a young officer of the siege of Sevastopol. His name was Count Leo Tolstoy, and the siege was during the Crimean...
...majestic town with cathedrals, palaces, a mighty harbor where all the warships in Europe could anchor, a holy "Common Grave" near by. That grave holds the dust of 127,000 Russians who died at Sevastopol in 1854-55, when Britain and her allies in the Crimean War besieged the city. Nine miles south of Sevastopol is the town of Balaklava, where the Light Brigade's 600 rode against the Russian batteries. Last week many times 600 Nazis died near Balaklava, but the Russians called their defensive maze of gunpits and tank traps nothing so poetic as "the valley...
...Brandon Hill, in Bristol, two huge cannon, which for 87 years had pointed their empty mouths over the town, were being dismounted. They were Russian cannon, which Bristol lads had captured in the Crimean War, at the siege of Sevastopol in 1854-55, and had brought home as trophies. But now Bristol lads were fighting on Russia's side, and the cannon, heavy with good iron, could be melted down to be made into modern weapons...
...India must carry even more vital products, such as manganese (three-fifths of the world's production is in India and the U.S.S.R., and Russia is now even more remote than India) and mica (essential for electric insulation, 80% of it comes from India). Every war since the Crimean has created a boom in jute, but this is the first time the Western Hemisphere faced jutelessness...