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The siege of Sevastopol is in full swing but the Crimean War is becoming evermore unpopular in the public eye. Journalists are reporting on army scandals and starving troops and the military fights ...

2024. Europe in British Literature and Culture. p. 19. The mid-nineteenth century's Crimean War is frequently dismissed as an embarrassment, an event marred by blunders and an occasion better ...

Donald Trump won the U.S. presidential election on Nov. 6, after months of repeatedly claiming he could end Russia's ...

The mood among servicemen is sombre as a military expert predicts Ukraine has about eight months left of military aid.

Videos of the damaged Crimean bridge have spread like wildfire ... to undermine Russia's ability to use Crimea as a launch pad for its war in southern Ukraine. The road and railway bridges are ...

Following Russian invasions in Romania and Turkey in 1853, Great Britain and France entered the war in 1854 primarily out of strategic interest in defending the Bosporus and Dardanelles Straits ...

This map shows the area of conflict during the Crimean War. In crossing the Danube River on the western edge of the Black Sea and into Ottoman territory, the Russians had designs on moving south and ...

She wanted to travel to the Crimean War to help British troops but the Government refused. Mary funded her travel to Crimea herself and built a hotel there. War stories usually remember men ...

After winning the Eurovision Song Contest in 2016, Ukrainian singer Jamala set about saving the traditional music of her persecuted Crimean Tatar people. Then during the war in 2022, she feared ...

Crimean war (1854-5) medal awarded to Private William Davies, Coldstream Guards, with bars for the Siege of Sebastapol and the Battles of Balaklava and Inkerman. William was born in the tiny ...

The mid-nineteenth century's Crimean War is frequently dismissed as an embarrassment, an event marred by blunders and an occasion better forgotten. In The Crimean War and its Afterlife Lara Kriegel ...