A city in southern Ukraine on the Black Sea

Usage examples of sebastopol.

We slept at Baidar, a Tartar village, where a maiden of that Moslem race was the only attendant at the Russian inn, and on the morrow we drove in three hours to Sebastopol, a distance of forty-two versts.

What a nonsense of mine to endeavour to swell up the Eureka stockade to the level of a Sebastopol!

He walked rapidly up the Rue Sebastopol, and, reaching the square of the Arts et Metiers, he abruptly stopped, and asked some insignificant questions of two constables who were standing talking together.

She plied the coast route round the Black Sea ports, from Tibesk in the north round to Yalta, and from there she stopped at the picturesque seaside resorts of Bukim, Talinin, Sebastopol.

He was a graduate of West Point, but had entered the French Army, where he saw service in the Crimea, Algiers, and Italy, taking part in the battle of Balaklava, the siege of Sebastopol, and the battle of Solferino.

We found it wonderful in its strength, and were prepared to accept the statement of those who had seen foreign defensive works, that it was much more powerful than the famous Malakoff, which so long defied the besiegers of Sebastopol.