August 16: and again there is an occasion …

4 on August (16), 1855 during the Crimean war near Sevastopol, the river Black, had a Chernorechensky battle between the joint French-Sardinian armies and the Russian army which because of a mistake in the order was broken during storm of Fedyukhinsky heights. The Russian armies lost more than 8000 people, from them more than 2000 killed, other party lost to 2000 people, from them about 300 killed. Dominating heights remained in coalition hands, and the Russian armies had to recede. Charges of incompetent command of the groups expressed Kirillov Nicholas Reada and...