Battle of the Great Redan

Battle of the Great Redan
Part of the siege of Sevastopol (Crimean War)
The Attack on the Redan by Robert Alexander Hillingford
Date 8 September 1855 Location Great Redan, Sevastopol, Taurida Governorate, Russian Empire 44°35′51.03″N 33°32′24.71″E / 44.5975083°N 33.5401972°E / 44.5975083; 33.5401972 Result First assault: Russian victory Second assault: Russian Victory Third assault: British victory
Belligerents
British Empire	Russian Empire
Commanders and leaders
James Simpson General John Campbell † Colonel Lord West Colonel Lacy Yea †	Mikhail Gorchakov
Strength
11,000[a]	7,500[b]
Casualties and losses
2,620 killed, wounded, or missing[2]	Unknown

The Battle of the Great Redan (or the Storming of the Third Bastion;^[3] Russian: Оборона Третьего бастиона, Штурм третьего бастиона) was a major battle during the Crimean War, fought between British forces against Russia on 18 June and 8 September 1855 as a part of the Siege of Sevastopol. The French army successfully stormed the Malakoff redoubt, whereas a simultaneous British attack on the Great Redan to the south of the Malakoff was repulsed. Contemporary commentators have suggested that, although the Redan became so important to the Victorians, it was probably not vital to the taking of Sevastopol. The fort at Malakhov was much more important and it was in the French sphere of influence. When the French stormed it after an eleven-month siege that the final, the British attack on the Redan became somewhat unnecessary.^[4]

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