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Image Title: Highland Brigade Camp, Looking South, 1855

Creator: Day & Son.,

Date: 1855 May 24th

Summary: Print shows an artillery battery with Capn. Mansfield, Major Shadwell, Lieut. Col. Stirling, Major Gordon, and Sir Colin Campbell standing near the cannons, with the camp of the Highland Brigade, showing huts and tents, in the background; the harbor at Balaklava and the remains of the old Genoese castle are visible in the distance on the right.

Notes: Plate in: The seat of war in the east : Dedicated by permission to Her most gracious Majesty the Queen / William Simpson. First series. London : Published by Paul & Dominic Colnaghi & Co., publishers to Her Majesty, 13 & 14 Pall Mall East ; Paris : Goupil & Cie., 1855, [plate 27].|Attached to the edge of the sheet is a printed "Key to Highland Brigade..." which identifies several of the men standing near the cannons and the various camps in the background.

Related Names: Simpson, William, 1823-1899|Picken, Thomas, -1870

Subjects: Batteries (Weaponry)--Ukraine--Crimea--1850-1860
Cannons--Ukraine--Crimea--1850-1860
Clyde, Colin Campbell,--Baron,--1792-1863--Military service
Crimean War, 1853-1856--Military facilities--British
Crimean War, 1853-1856--Military personnel--British
Military personnel--British--Ukraine--Crimea--1850-1860

Original Media: Lithograph

Collections: Popular Graphic Arts

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