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Siege of Petropavlovsk
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The Siege of Petropavlovsk was the main operation on the Pacific Theatre of the Crimean War.
It started on 18 August 1854, when an Allied squadron of three English and French frigates, one corvette, one brig and one steamship cast anchor in the Avacha Bay. The squadron was commanded by Rear Admirals David Price and Fevrier de Point and had some 218 cannons at its disposal, as compared to 67 cannons available to the defenders of Kamchatka's main city.
Two days later, the Allies landed 600 troops to the south from the city, but these were met by 230 garrison troops who, after heavy fighting, forced them to retreat. On 24 August, some 970 Allied troops landed west of Petropavlovsk, but were likewise repelled by 360 Russians. Three days later, the squadron was commanded to leave the Russian waters. The Russian casualties are estimated at 100 soldiers; the Allies lost five times as many.
In April 1855, Nikolay Muravyov, aware of the insufficiency of troops and weapons to repel another attack on the city, had Petropavlovsk garrison evacuated.
- M.A. Sergeyev. Defense of Petropavlovsk-on-the-Kamchatka. 3rd ed. Moscow, 1954.
- Chapter in the Crimean War, by Yevgeny Tarle.