Quote Originally Posted by Freedom Onanist
Whatis your point? What is so against the odds there? On the one hand you have wooden ships at sea, on the other prepared shore batteries? Hmm...

+rep to fenir
Uh, lessee...

-The siege started on 18 August 1854, when an Allied squadron of three British and French frigates, one corvette, one brig and one steamship cast anchor in the Avacha Bay.

-They had some 218 cannons at its disposal, as compared to 67 cannons available to the defenders of Kamchatka's main city under Vasily Zavoyko.

-Petropavlovsk was lightly defended, with just over 1,000 troops, including the crews of the vessels sheltering in its harbour

- Naval Brigade of around 700 British and French seamen and marines landed on 4 September, under Captains Burridge and de La Grandiere, but they were ambushed and, after some heavy fighting, retreated with 107 British and 101 French dead. On 24 August, 970 aggressors landed west of Petropavlovsk, but were repelled by 360 Russians.

-The Allies left Petropavlovsk to the Russians until April 1855, when Nikolay Muravyov, aware of the insufficiency of troops and weapons to repel another attack on the city, had Petropavlovsk garrison evacuated under the cover of snow.

So they held off a superior force of troops for over a year, and you say thats not as good as an elite unit of British riflemen taking down a smaller force of Cossack cavalry?