I am grateful to John Sloan for permission to use this image that appear on the Xenophongi web site and which graciously he has agreed to share with the Victorian Web. Copyright, of course, remains with him. — Marjie Bloy, Ph.D., Senior Research Fellow, National University of Singapore.

Balaklava harbour from William Simpson's The Seat of War in the East, second series. Note the Genoese fortress, Chembalo, on the headland in background.


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