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Fortress wall
Part of the ruins from Bomarsund fortress on the Åland islands in the middle of the Baltic Sea. It's guns were obsolete by the time it was completed and the Russian garrison was rather easily conquered by the superior field guns of the French and English in the Summer of 1854. The victors destroyed the fortress to prevent it from being improved upon as it commanded a strategic point on the shipping route. A lesser known part of the Crimean War.
Fortress wall
Part of the ruins from Bomarsund fortress on the Åland islands in the middle of the Baltic Sea. It's guns were obsolete by the time it was completed and the Russian garrison was rather easily conquered by the superior field guns of the French and English in the Summer of 1854. The victors destroyed the fortress to prevent it from being improved upon as it commanded a strategic point on the shipping route. A lesser known part of the Crimean War.