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 ...

This sword belonged to Mr John Ashley Kilvert and was used by him during the Crimean War. His regiment ... the Light Brigade on October 25th 1854 at Balaclava. He was wounded at the battle ...

For the poet laureate, the gallant but futile attack at Balaclava was a testimony to ... Britain entered the Crimean War on the side of Turkey, largely to defend its own imperialistic interests ...

Thanks alone to one corner of the Crimean peninsula, October 25th, 1854 was what journalists called a busy news day. Its main headline grabber was the spectacularly disastrous Charge of the Light ...