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Sadly, many museums that we remember visiting over past years which featured good displays or appreciable artefacts of Crimean War relevance, (for example, Belvoir Castle’s 17th/21st Lancers Museum, open from 1963-2007, and Leicester’s incredible Tigers [17th Foot] museum, 1969-96), have since been closed or moved and amalgamated and thus diluted into insignificance. Magnificent artefacts that […]
Museums of Crimean War Interest Read More »
The Crimean War was the only European conflict fought by the British during the reign of Queen Victoria – during the years 1854 to 1856. However, the war actually began in early 1853 with the Russian invasion of Wallachia and Moldavia, (part of the the Ottoman Empire at the time, and now Romania), and took
unfinished – The Campaigns and Battles – overview Read More »
Me to come up with a basic, breif introduction, as if seeing the info board when walking into a new gallery of a museum. Blah, blah, blah, blah…
A General Introduction to Headdress during the Crimean War Read More »
This is up to me to write an article on this subject… I’d like to write something about the British Infantry uniforms being worn in 1854 Blah, blah, blah, blah… Blah, blah, blah, blah…
British Infantry uniforms, 1854, at the beginning of the Crimean campaign. Read More »
From the Museum of the Manchester Regiment website 1854 – 1856 A squabble over jurisdiction within the Holy Places of Turkish ruled Jerusalem brought France into controversy with Russia. Britain took the part of France and the two nations allied themselves with Turkey. Nicholas I of Russia saw an opportunity to dominate Turkey to secure
63rd (the West Suffolk) Regiment of Foot Read More »
