Note 5 — Chapter XXXIX · THE HISTORY OF THE AMUR.
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Their strength on the Amur at the time was very inconsiderable, and the allies, having mustered their forces on the American coast, came down upon a comparatively feeble folk in Siberia. Petropavlovsk in Kamchatka was attacked, but the Russians managed to hold their own till orders arrived from Petersburg to abandon the place, which they did on 17th April, 1855, taking with them the inhabitants, with whom they safely reached Castries Bay.