Crimean War

The Crimean War saw the introduction of the Victoria Cross, which was awarded to 111 men. Whilst the history of the Crimean War has been related ma...

In 1854, Dr David Greig, a newly qualified doctor from Dundee, volunteered and set sail on the Vectis to serve as an army surgeon in the Crimean Wa...

Week after week, the guns of the British expeditionary force battered away at the defences of Sevastopol, eight miles away from Balaklava, the port...

On 28 March 1854 Queen Victorias government announced that Britain was at war with Russia, and British troops made ready to sail to the Crimea. The...

The Crimean War was the most destructive conflict of Queen Victorias reign, the outcome of which was indecisive; most historians regard it as an ir...

Orlando Figes' Crimea is a powerful history of the Crimean War, the conflict that dominated the nineteenth century. The Crimean War one of the fie...

In 1854 Britain and France were at war to save poor little Turkey, the crumbling Ottoman Empire, from the menace of Russian expansionism. On 25 Oct...

In 2013, Germany celebrated the bicentennial of the so-called Wars of Liberation (181315). These wars were the culmination of the Prussian struggle...