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The Crimean War

The Crimean War. “The War That None of You Ever Heard of Until Now…”. "The British have always loved their defeats as much as their victories“—Alastair Massie. Russia had a strategic interest in the Bosporus outlet into the Mediterranean Sea….

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The Crimean War

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  1. The Crimean War “The War That None of You Ever Heard of Until Now…”

  2. "The British have always loved their defeats as much as their victories“—Alastair Massie

  3. Russia had a strategic interest in the Bosporus outlet into the Mediterranean Sea… …and the Ottoman Empire was known as “the sick man of Europe”

  4. This was seen as a potential challenge to British naval power

  5. Britain & France declared war on Russia to prevent their territorial ambitions

  6. Crimea was the first media war with reporters and photographers capturing events

  7. News of the light brigade's charge during the battle of Balaclava came to British breakfast tables only 3 weeks after it had happened Crimean War Playing Card

  8. Battle of Balaclava Charge of the Light Brigade

  9. Balaclava helmets were sent to British soldiers during the war for winter use

  10. "It was the most lethal costume party in history“—Massie

  11. Actually, there were 673 men in the charge and fewer than 200 died

  12. The war showed that chivalric cavalry charges and officers in full-dress uniforms were no match for modern fire-power

  13. Mortar battery with bomb-proof shelter in the Crimean War

  14. Florence Nightingale The pioneer of modern nursing

  15. More than 16,000 soldiers died of diseases such as dysentery “The Lady With the Lamp”

  16. In 1854, she led a group of 3 dozen nurses to Constantinople to serve in British military hospitals (nurses had not served in such wartime field hospitals before)

  17. She convinced army officials to change terrible conditions in the hospitals

  18. Punch Magazine Cartoon

  19. Results of the Crimean War • Russian withdrawal from European affairs for 20 years • Opportunity for the unifications of Germany and Italy • Breakdown of Conservative order in Europe • Austrian refusal to help Russia made them enemies

  20. Lord Alfred Tennyson: "Forward, the Light Brigade!"Was there a man dismayed?Not though the soldier knewSome one had blundered:Their's not to make reply,Their's not to reason why,Their's but to do and die:Into the valley of DeathRode the six hundred.

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