British Foreign Policy 1815-65

• Background to the Crimean War

• Illustrative materials

• Narrative of Events

• Maps

• Primary Sources

• Contemporary cartoons/drawings

• Secondary Sources

• Literature

• Individual Biographies

• Modern photographs

• Inkerman Diorama photos

Background to the Crimean War

• Principles of British Foreign Policy in the Nineteenth Century
• Europe after the French Wars
• The Congress of Vienna

Narrative of Events

• A Chronology of the Crimean War
• Introduction
• Long term causes of the Crimean War
• Immediate causes of the Crimean War
• "Britain in Blunderland" part 1
• "Britain in Blunderland" part 2
• Comment on attitudes in Britain
• The Treaty of Paris 1856
• General comments on the Crimean War in terms of Britain's history

Primary sources

• Voice from the Ranks: a personal narrative of the Crimean campaign by Timothy Gowing, a sergeant of the Royal Fusiliers (Nottingham, 1895)
• The Letters of Captain WP Richards
• The Diary of Services in the Crimea by Charles W Usherwood and while serving with the 1st Battalion, 19th Regiment of Foot
• The Light Cavalry Brigade in the Crimea: Extracts from the Letters and Journal of General Lord George Paget

• A Guards Officer's Account of the Battle of the Alma, 21 September 1854
• Lt-Col S J G Calthorpe's account of the landings and the Battle of the Alma, September 1854
• Sergeant Turner on the Battle of Inkerman, 2 November 1854
• The New York Times on the Battle of Inkerman, 5 November 1854
• The French account of first day of the bombardment and early news of the battle of Balaclava, 6 November 1854.
• The Siege of Sebastopol: New York Times, 17 November 1854
• Captain Campbell on Life Before Balaclava, 1854-1855
• Lt.-Col. Sterling on Life Before Balaclava, 1855
• Lord Lucan's Defense of His Conduct at Balaclava, 19 March 1855
• Prince Gortshakoff on the Evacuation of Sebastapol, 30 August 1855
• Reports from the New York Times, 19 October 1855

Secondary Sources

Extracts from Christopher Hibbert's The Destruction of Lord Raglan, (Longmans, 1961) appear with the author's kind permission. Copyright, of course, remains with Dr. Hibbert.

• the organisation of the British army
• the men in command of the British army (early 1854)
• the British army at Varna (September 1854)
• the landing at Eupatoria (September 1854)
• the March to the Alma (September 1854)
• the Russian defences at Sevastopol (September 1854)
• the British camp at Balaclava (September/October 1854)
• Dissent among the British commanders (October onwards, 1854)
• the Charge of the Light Brigade (25 October 1854)
• the condition of the British army in the Crimea (November 1854)
• the great storm (14 November 1854)
• chaos at the British camp at Balaclava (December 1854)
• the nightmare of the Crimea (January/February 1855)
• improvements in the Crimea (February 1855)

Extract from Cecil Woodham Smith's The Reason Why (New York , McGraw-Hill 1953), pp.242-59.

• the Charge of the Light Brigade (25 October 1854)

Maps of the Crimea

Individual biographies

• Sir Richard Joseph Airey
• Major General Frederick Ernest Appleyard CB
  • SEE ALSO Incidents and Occurances during my Thirty-four years Service by Maj.-Gen. F. E. Appleyard C.B.
• Sir George Brown
• Duke of Cambridge
• Sir Colin Campbell
• Lord Cardigan
• General Sir George Cathcart
• Sir Richard England
• James Bucknall Estcourt,
• Sir George de Lacy Evans
• Sir Bartle Frere
• Timothy Gowing (1)
• Timothy Gowing (2)
• Lord Lucan
• John Martin
• Sir William Francis Patrick Napier
• Florence Nightingale
• Louis Edward Nolan
• Lord George Paget
• Captain Sir William Peel VC, KCB He was the third son of Sir Robert Peel. Sir William's story is told on this page by Roger Bragger. I am grateful that he shares this page with The Peel Web.
• Sir John Lysaght Pennefather
• Lord Raglan
• William Powell Richards
• Mary Seacole
• Alexis Soyer
• Brigadier-General Thomas Fox Strangeways
• Lacy Walter Giles Yea

Literature

Santa Filomena: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: 1857
Charge of the Light Brigade: Alfred, Lord Tennyson
A contemporary poem

Modern photographs

• the forts on the Bosphorus
  • Anadolu
  • Rumeli
• the Battlefield of the Alma
• the Battlefield of Balaclava

Illustrative materials

• The landing at Eupatoria
• The Battle of the Alma
• The Charge of the Heavy Brigade
• The Charge of the Light Brigade
• Balaclava harbour
• Winter in the Trenches
• The Battle of Tractir Bridge

Maps

• Turkey and Russia
• the Ottoman Empire
• the Straits
• the Crimea
• the west coast of the Crimea
• the Battle of the Alma
• the Battle of Inkerman
• Balaclava
• the Chersonese peninsula
• Sevastopol

Contemporary Cartoons/drawings

• Turkey in Danger
• Unceremonious Treatment of the Russian Ultimatum
• The Shooting Season
• Shopping
• A Trump Card(igan)
• You are requested not to speak to the man at the wheel
• The Queen visiting the imbeciles of the Crimea
• Dinner in the Crimea
• Hauling guns
• Evening party at Sevastopol
• Patient Heroes
• How Jack made the Turk useful at Balaclava
• Uniform stupidity
• The Dirty Doorstep
• Now For It
• Seeing the Old Year out and the New Year in
• The New Crew
• Manouevres

Diorama: photographs

My thanks to Brian Jones for allowing me to use these photographs of his work. He is producing a diorama of the Battle of Inkerman

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