French Assault on the Curtain Wall of Malakoff on September 8, 1855  1859

Description of the event depicted, as offered by Wikipedia: [br] "The Battle of Malakoff was a French attack against Russian forces on the Malakoff redoubt and its subsequent capture on 8 September 1855 as a part of the Siege of Sevastopol during the Crimean War. The French army under General MacMahon successfully stormed the Malakoff redoubt, while a simultaneous British...