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Hace 3 días · Divided into three parts (‘Persistence’, ‘Avatars’, ‘Angels’), The Crimean War and its Afterlife charts the manifold reverberations of a Victorian conflict—often dismissed as a blunder and an instance of colossal failure—over the ages.
Hace 4 días · The east window of the south chapel is apparently modern, and contains stained glass in memory of Lord Raglan (Commander-in-Chief in the Crimean War), dating from 1859; it consists of five cinquefoiled lights with cusped vertical tracery above, in a two-centred head; the jambs are moulded with a wide hollow.
Hace 4 días · The Russian president has invested huge sums in military infrastructure in Crimea, all of it now under threat. A D-Day-style amphibious assault to liberate Crimea remains inconceivable. But, says...
Hace 4 días · In 1853, war broke out on the Crimean Peninsula between Russia and an alliance of the Ottoman Empire, Britain, France, and Sardinia, sparking intense public interest in the little-known region.
Hace 3 días · Together with Palmerston, Russell supported the government taking a hard line against Russian territorial ambitions in the Ottoman Empire, a policy that ultimately resulted in Britain's entry into the Crimean War in March 1854, an outcome that the more cautious Aberdeen had hoped to avoid.
Hace 4 días · History: The Raglan sleeve style originated from Lord Raglan, a prominent British officer during the Crimean War. This style was developed to provide more freedom of movement for soldiers in their uniforms, hence the unique slanted seam.
Hace 2 días · Lord Raglan showed in many acts what a kind heart was his. Later, when the siege of Sebastopol was progressing, Nat Stevens and I were sitting in our closed tent, enjoying a fire. Nat was an inventive genius, and had found an old funnel lying about, and had made a kind of a chimney, through which escaped some of the smoke, that was caused by a few damp roots burning in a very primitive fire-place.
