Malakoff turn

The Turn Malakoff (in Cyrillic: Малахов, Malakhov) is a tower of the town of Sébastopol in the Crimea (today in Ukraine) being used as military defense.

The tower was set up at the top of a hill vis-a-vis the ramparts to defend the city against a possible attack of the English and lately combined French, at the beginning of the Années 1850. One gave him the name of a former Russian captain whose memory remained attached to the place, Vladimir Malakhov.

High and equipped with powerful guns, the tower ten meters constituted a frightening and central defense.

During the Crimean War, at the time of the head office of Sébastopol, the allied generals (French, English and Turkish) being discouraged, a council of war was held the October 19th 1854.

At the time of this council, Lord Raglan recommended to scatter fires (shootings), instead of concentrating them, and added: “Should begin your work of approach to You while directing them towards the Malakoff tower, because, early or late, it is there that you will be obliged to carry your final attack.”

They were only five or six months later, when one saw the Russians joining together all their forces of resistance around the tower, that one understood that the key of the position was there.

The September 8th 1855, at the time of the Battle of Malakoff, the Malakoff tower falls to the hands from the French, directed by the marshal Patrice of Mac-Mahon, become celebrates in particular for this victory during which he pronounced his famous “I am there! I remain there! ”, involving the fall of the city. Its catch by the zouaves of the French Army, involved the fall of Sébastopol the September 8th 1855 with the hands of combined and marked the end of the Crimean War. The exploit was celebrated in all the Europe. In France, Alexandre Chauvelot reconstituted the tower in the south of Paris, in the middle of its new garden called the news California and which even took shortly after the name, francized, of Malakoff.

See too

External bonds

  • History of Malakoff
  • Image of the Tower

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