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Events on Tuesday 17 October 1854 1
1854Siege of Sevastopol beginsAllied forces besiege the Russian Black Sea fleet baseAllied armies began besieging the fortified Russian naval port of Sevastopol in Crimea. The siege would become the central and longest operation of the Crimean War.