text:  In order to command the narrow entrance of the harbour [20] and so cut off the constant reinforcements which reached the besieged by sea the principal batteries were directed against the bastion of Sabionera (called by the Turks the _Kizil-Tabiyah _ or Red Fort ) at the seaward extremity of the works on one side and against that of St Andrew on the other; but the events of the siege during this year present nothing to distinguish them from the endless succession of mines sorties assaults and countermines which had marked the campaign of last year