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Description: The Eastern Crisis. Illustration for The Illustrated London News, 17 April 1897. Sketch of the British battleship HMS Camperdown of the International Squadron shelling Christian insurgent forces at Izzeddin Fortress in Crete with her 13.5-inch (343-mm) guns on 28 March 1897 as seen from the deck of the British battleship HMS Revenge. Melton Prior (ca. 1846-1 November 1910), artist for the Illustrated London News from 1873 to 1904 per The British in Crete, 1896 to 1913: Aptera Blockhouse and The Annual Register 1910, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1911, Page 143.
Title: Insurgents attempting to take Fort Izzedin ...
Credit: The London Illustrated News via https://britishinterventionincrete.wordpress.com/category/european-intervention-crete/royal-navy-in-crete/
Author: After Melton Prior
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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