Battle of Inkermann.
[Glasgow] : Poet's Box, 6 St Andrew's Lane, Glasgow,
[1857]
In one column.
'Price one penny'.
'The Battle of Inkermann, fought and conquered by the allied troops - British, French, Sardinians and Turks, on the 5th November 1854, will ever stand, on the memory of the present generation; and on the page of history it will go to the end of the world, as one of the greatest achievements ever accomplished by gun, sword, and cannon. The difficulties the allies had to encounter were great, and only noble hearts could accomplish them. Bravery on the allies side closed the day's proceedings, while many a brave hero lies now on the Crimea, having left heart broken mothers and widowed wives to lament their loss - but having died honourably for their country's rights, they look back with melancholy and delight. Hear what the Poet now says in his noble piece of recitation, which the poet has no doubt will be recited by every school boy, and on every stage of the globe till time shall be no more. It can only be had in the Poet's Box, 6 St Andrew's Lane, Glasgow'.
First lines read: Sebastopol lay shrouded in thick November's gloom, / And through the midnight silence the guns had ceas'd to boom; / The sentinel the outworn in watching for the morn / From Balaklava's heights, beheld the Russian lights.
Dated at the foot of the sheet - 'Saturday morning, August 8, 1857'.
Crimean War, 1853-1856
Inkerman (Ukraine), Battle of, 1854
Ballads, English