Florence Nightingale is widely hailed as the founder of today's nursing profession, especially for her exploits in the Crimean War. |
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The medal was first established in 1856 after the end of the Crimean War to commemorate actions of extreme bravery in the face of the enemy. |
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Irishman Charles Lucas, a ship's first mate, was honoured for bravery during action in the Baltic during the Crimean War. |
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England had garrisoned troops in Dublin, and shortly after Matt was born in 1856, soldiers began returning from the Crimean War. |
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He saw active service in the Crimean War as paymaster on HMS Gladiator, being awarded the Crimean War Medal, clasp Sevastapol. |
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Until the Crimean War, the Russian army was trained to fight battles like Borodino. |
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The soft-hearted lady of the lamp tended tirelessly to the wounded of the Crimean War and laid the foundations of modern nursing. |
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The award of honours for conspicuous gallantry came rather late, with the Victoria Cross during the Crimean War. |
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He was awarded the Crimean War Medal, three clasps and the Turkish Crimean War Medal. |
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Although this is the full dress uniform worn at the time of the Crimean War, a slightly more comfortable jacket was worn on campaign with a lower and plainer collar. |
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Guelzo draws attention to the lessons the soldiers of the mid-19th century drew from the Crimean War. |
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During 1854 Britain entered into the Crimean War, and an old Turkish barracks became the British Army Hospital in Scutari. |
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During the Crimean War in 1854 and 1855, three Royal Marines earned the Victoria Cross, two in the Crimea and one in the Baltic. |
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In the Crimean War, minesweepers consisted of British rowboats trailing grapnels to snag the mines. |
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The Crimean War was one of the first conflicts to use modern technologies such as explosive naval shells, railways and telegraphs. |
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Not surprisingly, in view of their country's defeat in the Crimean War, they were Anglophobes to a man. |
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A military volunteer movement attracted wide interest during the Crimean War. |
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The Crimean War with Russia and the Boer wars were relatively small operations in a largely peaceful century. |
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Britain entered the Crimean War in February 1854, and Gladstone introduced his second budget on 6 March. |
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In the wake of the Crimean War there was widespread criticism of several aspects of Britain's military command. |
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Russell, the paper's correspondent with the army in the Crimean War, was immensely influential with his dispatches back to England. |
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Over the next decades, troops stationed around Plymouth trained in the area, notably in 1853 before and during the Crimean War. |
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In 1853, Britain fought alongside France in the Crimean War, against Russia. |
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In 1857, Bright's unpopular opposition to the Crimean War led to his losing his seat as member for Manchester. |
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In 1854 the French and British, who were battling Russian forces in the course of the Crimean War, attacked Petropavlovsk. |
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By the end of the Crimean War, pipe bands were established in most of the Scottish Regiments. |
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During the Crimean War, a joint British and French fleet attacked the Russian fortresses in the Baltic. |
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Under the direction of Sir John Crampton in 1854 and 1855, British consuls attempted to enlist American volunteers to fight in the Crimean War. |
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In 2004, a poll found that people considered the Crimean War heroine Mary Seacole to be the greatest Black Briton. |
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Having lost the fight at Nasibpur, Rao Tula Ram and Pran Sukh Yadav requested arms from Russia, which had just been engaged against Britain in the Crimean War. |
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In 1853, Britain and France intervened in the Crimean War against Russia. |
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Although it was Russia that was punished by the Paris Treaty, in the long run it was Austria that lost the most from the Crimean War despite having barely taken part in it. |
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The Crimean War also led to the eventual realisation by the Russian government of its technological inferiority, in military practices as well as weapons. |
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Russia issued a Defence of Sevastopol, and a Crimean War medal. |
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The dispute was initiated by the depression in trade which followed the Crimean War and saw the local coal owners successfully impose a reduction in wages. |
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The Crimean War saw British and French expeditions sent into the Baltic to prevent Russian ships' egress into the North Sea though they saw little action. |
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Dedicated minesweepers, however, only appear in the historical record several centuries later, to the Crimean War, where they were deployed by the British. |
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In early 1855, the government of Lord Aberdeen, who had replaced Derby, fell amidst recriminations over the poor management of British troops in the Crimean War. |
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Napoleon III, since the Crimean War Britain's closest ally, visited London in April 1855, and from 17 to 28 August the same year Victoria and Albert returned the visit. |
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He helped in the unification of Italy by fighting the Austrian Empire and joined the Crimean War on the side of the United Kingdom and the Ottoman Empire against Russia. |
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But war was in the air, and the most impassioned speeches he ever delivered were addressed to this parliament in fruitless opposition to the Crimean War. |
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In the 1840s, a steam factory gave a new lease of life to the dockyard and the 1850s saw a huge expansion of the arsenal during and after the Crimean War. |
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The noms de guerre accorded Mary Seacole during the Crimean war testify to the enormous affection with which she was regarded by officers and men. |
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The company was founded in 1861 to supply arms for the Crimean war, and during the First World War produced rifles, Lewis guns, shells and motorcycles. |
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