Back معركة مالاكوف Arabic Batalla de Malakoff Catalan Batalla de Malakoff Spanish Bataille de Malakoff French Battaglia di Malachov Italian Slag bij Malachov Dutch Batalha de Malakoff Portuguese Bătălia de la Malahov Romanian Malakof Muharebesi Turkish Trận Malakoff Vietnamese

Battle of Malakoff

Battle of Malakoff
Part of the siege of Sevastopol and the Crimean War

The Battle of Malakoff by Adolphe Yvon
Date18 June 1855: 1st assault
8 September 1855: 2nd assault [a]
Location
Malakhov Kurgan, Sevastopol, Taurida Governorate, Russian Empire
44°36′14″N 33°32′57″E / 44.603888898889°N 33.549166676667°E / 44.603888898889; 33.549166676667
Result

French victory

  • 1st assault repulsed [1][2]
  • 2nd assault successful [3]
Belligerents
France French Empire  Russian Empire
Commanders and leaders
France Patrice de MacMahon
France Aimable Pélissier		 Russian Empire Mikhail Dmitrievich Gorchakov
Strength

70,500[4]

  • 1st assault: 28,000[b]
  • 2nd assault: 60,000[c]

59,500[4]

  • 1st assault: 11,000[d]
  • 2nd assault: 50,000[e]
Casualties and losses

1st assault: 5,000[f]
2nd assault: 10,000[g]

Other estimates of the 2nd assault:
7,546[21] to 10,000[22]

1st assault: 1,500[h]
2nd assault: 12,000[i]

Another estimate of the 2nd assault:
13,000[22]
The Taking of Malakoff by Horace Vernet. A British officer salutes the French flag.
Detail of Franz Roubaud's panoramic painting (1904).
Attack by General Mayran's Division on Works near the Malakoff. George Dodd. Pictorial history of the Russian war 1854–56

The Battle of Malakoff (French: Bataille de Malakoff, Russian: Бой на Малаховом кургане) or the Storming of the Malakhov Kurgan[23] (Russian: Штурм Малахова кургана) was a series of French attacks against Russian forces on the Malakoff redoubt. The first attack was unsuccessful, and occurred on 18 June 1855; subsequent capture of the redoubt was on 8 September 1855. The assaults were parts of the Crimean War and the siege of Sevastopol. The French army under General MacMahon successfully stormed the Malakoff redoubt on 8th, while a simultaneous British attack on the Redan to the south of the Malakoff was repulsed. In one of the war's defining moments, the French zouave Eugène Libaut raised the French flag on the top of the Russian redoubt. The battle of Malakoff resulted in the fall of Sevastopol on 9 September, bringing the 11-month siege to an end.


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  1. ^ Fletcher & Ishchenko 2004, p. 416.
  2. ^ a b c Guillemin 1981, p. 176.
  3. ^ Fletcher & Ishchenko 2004, pp. 501–504.
  4. ^ a b The Crimean War: A Clash of Empires by Ian Fletcher & Natalia Ishchenko
  5. ^ a b c d Fletcher & Ishchenko 2004, pp. 401–402.
  6. ^ a b Guillemin 1981, p. 174.
  7. ^ a b Totleben 1863, p. 352, vol. 2.
  8. ^ a b Gouttman 2006, p. 318.
  9. ^ a b Skorikov 1997, p. 243.
  10. ^ a b Fletcher & Ishchenko 2004, p. 452.
  11. ^ a b Fletcher & Ishchenko 2004, pp. 458–459.
  12. ^ a b Figes 2012, p. 388.
  13. ^ a b Guillemin 1981, p. 194.
  14. ^ a b Gouttman 2006, p. 348.
  15. ^ a b Gooch 1959, p. 223.
  16. ^ a b Gouttman 2006, p. 328.
  17. ^ a b Figes 2012, p. 371.
  18. ^ a b Fletcher & Ishchenko 2004, pp. 475, 493.
  19. ^ a b Guillemin 1981, p. 201.
  20. ^ a b Gouttman 2006, p. 360.
  21. ^ Clodfelter M. Warfare and armed conflicts : a statistical encyclopedia of casualty and other figures, 1494–2007. McFarland. 2008. p. 195
  22. ^ a b Tucker, S.C., A Global Chronology of Conflict: From the Ancient World to the Modern Middle East: From the Ancient World to the Modern Middle East. ABC-CLIO. 2009. p. 1218 [ISBN missing]
  23. ^ Velichko et al. 1915.

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