Newfoundland and Sebastopol

DESCRIPTION: "Success to France and England! Hurray my boys hurray! Sebastopol is taken And we've nobly gained the day" on September 8, 1855. The battles are recounted. "Here's to the memory of our soldiers ... of that dreadful battle Of September, fifty-five"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1929 (Greenleaf/Mansfield-BalladsAndSeaSongsOfNewfoundland)
KEYWORDS: army battle war England France Russia memorial
HISTORICAL REFERENCES:
Sep 9, 1855 - Fall of Sevastopol following an 11 month siege
FOUND IN: Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Greenleaf/Mansfield-BalladsAndSeaSongsOfNewfoundland 152, "Newfoundland and Sebastopol" (1 text)
Roud #17747
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Sebastopol (Old England's Gained the Day; Capture and Destruction of Sebastopol; Cheer, Boys, Cheer)" (subject, theme)
NOTES [19 words]: Greenleaf/Mansfield-BalladsAndSeaSongsOfNewfoundland['s version] has no mention of "Newfoundland" in the text. - BS
File: GrMa152

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