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The C-in-C of the British force was the 66-year-old General FitzRoy James Henry Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan. Portrait by William Salter. |
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General FitzRoy James Henry Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan. |
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Portrait of the British admiral Sir Charles Napier, by Henry Valentin. |
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HMS Duke of Wellington, Flagship of the Baltic Fleet, which was used by Sir Charles Napier during the Crimean War. |
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The 33rd (or The Duke of Wellington’s) Regiment at the Battle of the Alma. (Courtesy of David Rowlands; www.davidrowlands.co.uk) |
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A photograph of warships at Balaklava, more specifically ‘Cossack Bay’. |
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The Cavalry camp near Balaklava. |
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Charge of the Heavy Brigade. |
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Maréchal Aimable Jean Jacques Pélissier – chief of staff for the province of Oran in Algiera. |
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The North Valley. |
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Edmund Lyons, from an 1857 engraving by D.J. Pound, after a photograph by Kilburn. |
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J.W.D. Dundas. |
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‘Soldiers transporting winter clothing, lumber for huts, and other supplies through a snow-covered landscape, with partially buried dead horses along the roadside, to the British camps’. |
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The 20th Regiment of Foot at the Battle of Inkerman, 5 November 1854. (Courtesy of David Rowlands; www.davidrowlands.co.uk) |
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Sir James Estcourt – Raglan’s Adjutant-General. |
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Scottish-born Lieutenant General Sir George Brown. |
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Sir James Simpson - 1st Regiment of Foot Guards (later the Grenadier Guards). |
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Two views of the Siege of Sevastopol 1855. (Courtesy of Valentin Ramirez) |
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General Sir William John Codrington GCB. |
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A view of the Barracks Battery after the storming of Sevastopol. |
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A photograph of the interior of the Redan following the storming of Sevastopol. |
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Memorial in the Balaklava valley to the British personnel who fell in the Crimean War. (Courtesy of George Chernilevsky) |