Fall of Sevastopol

September 9, 1855

After a year-long siege, French and British troops stormed the Malakoff redoubt and the Russian garrison evacuated Sevastopol in the night. It ended serious fighting in the Crimean War and exposed Russia's rotten logistics to Tsar Alexander II, just come to the throne. He began, that winter, to consider the emancipation of the serfs.