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Siege of Sevastopol (1854–1855)[edit]

Original - British lithograph published March 1855, shows winter military housing under construction with supplies borne on soldiers' backs. A dead horse lies by the roadside partially buried in snow.
Reason
An unusually large infobox nudges this image down several paragraphs below the relevant text. Specifically this illustration corresponds to "Toward the end of November, the weather broke and winter brought a storm which ruined the Allies' camps and supply lines. Men and horses became sick and starved in the poor conditions." Lithograph of wartime conditions published early 1855 shows soldiers transporting construction supplies on their own backs, with a dead horse partially buried in snow by the roadside. Restored version of File:Dead horse.jpg.
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Siege of Sevastopol (1854–1855)
Creator
William Simpson (artist)
  • Support as nominator --Durova320 01:03, 5 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment Placement might need a rethink. It looks like http://img40.imageshack.us/img40/9383/86467894.jpg for me. Noodle snacks (talk) 01:24, 5 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
    • Wow, that's much worse than on my browser. Realigned right. Does that solve it for you? Durova321 02:14, 5 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
      • It does, but someone has since set it to the gallery. Noodle snacks (talk) 08:05, 10 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support. Highly encyclopedic. Now works in my browser (FF3.5). Mostlyharmless (talk) 22:38, 5 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Question: Can it be left-aligned and actually included in the article text, or is that what was causing all the trouble above? Currently it looks like a spammed image that is not in the gallery only because it's being nom'ed for FP (i.e. for formatting reasons, it would work better in the gallery). upstateNYer 02:19, 6 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
    • That's a problem caused by the oversized infobox. Durova321 02:35, 6 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support In the long run, the article will increase in length and fix the formatting issues. This is a fine illustration. Shoemaker's Holiday Over 210 FCs served 17:34, 6 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support: Generally pretty and exceptionally encyclopedic, almost makes me want to know what this war was all about. -Ben pcc (talk) 18:57, 6 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support As long as the issue was with the infobox and not the photo. SirFozzie (talk) 05:44, 10 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Dead horse 2.jpg --Makeemlighter (talk) 02:37, 12 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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