The Crimean War is vital for
understanding much of what
followed the events of 1854-1855,
but also for understanding how the
contemporary British Army came to
be. The infantryman, the redcoat and
his regiment, carried the war from its
doomed follies to its victories against
odds. He marched out of the era of
Wellington and Waterloo as a man
trained to fight and die in a column
and a square, and into a new age of
modern warfare as a professional and
pragmatic army of one. His story is told
here.Features include:The Origins of the Conflict
Untangle the complex web of political and
religious rivalries between empires that
dragged Britain into its first large scale land
war since the guns fell silent at Waterloo.The Siege of Sebastopol
Even the Russians expected the great naval
garrison to fall, but instead the British and
their French allies committed to a siege that
would expose all parties to greater death and
hardship than they could stomach.Winter in the Crimea
As ill-prepared for the onset of winter as
Napoleon had been in 1812 and Hitler in 1941,
the beleaguered British endured incredible
hardship and suffering as the stores dwindled
and the icy wind whipped through their tents.The End of the Fighting
Humiliated by their failure to seize the Great
Redan, Britain’s war in the east ended with a
whimper rather than a bang. Sebastopol lay
in flames and the army entered their second
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