48 SKBASTOPOL BEFOPJ-: Till': BATTLE CHAP. The result mms, lliat at the liiiK' cif tlic invasion, ' the portals, both north and south, of the great bay defences. ^^' I'o-'^dstead, and both its shoi'cs within, to a dis- tance of more tlian two miles, "svere studded with fortified works. Of these, sonic, indeed, were only great earthworks, but others, and those the chief ones, were huge casemated forts, having stoue- Thesea- work revctments. These sea-forts and batteries forts 1 were : on the north side. Fort Constantino and Fort jMichael, both stone-works ; the work called ' Number Four,' the ' Twelve Apostles,' * and
- Paris ; ' and, on the south side, the Quarantine
Sea-fort,-|- Fort Alexander (a stone -work), the Artillery Fort, | Fort Nicholas, and Fort Paul (both stone-woi'ks) ; and, lastly, the Sviatoslaw Battery. Three of these, the Twelve Apostles, the Paris, and the Sviatoslaw Pattcry, were con- structed so late as the beginning of the year 1854. It was to cover Fort Constantine on its landward side, and to prevent the enemy's shi[)s from ap- proaching the shore, that, after the breaking out of the war, the Yolokhoff Tower (surnamed by our people the 'Wasp'), and the ' Kartaschewvsky,' or ' Telegraph ' Pattery, were erected on the high ground between the Star Fort and the open sea. In all these sea-forts and batteries, without in-
- Xot to be confonmlcd with tlic inan-of-war of the same
name. The earthwork was named alter the ship. + Called by the Kussians the ' Number Ten.' t The Fort thus called by the Allies included that front towards the roadstead which the Russians called the 'Number Eight Battery ' and also the Work for landward defence which the Russians callrd the ' Number Seven Bastion.'
