In the story of Bright and the Corn Law agitation, the Crimean War, the American Civil War, and the franchise struggle Trevelyan reflects something of the moral power which enabled this independent man to exercise so immense an influence over his fellow countrymen for so long.

The family factory produced armaments for the Crimean War ( 1853 – 1856 ); but, had difficulty switching back to regular domestic production when the fighting ended and they filed for bankruptcy.

Throughout its history, the British Army has seen action in a number of major wars involving the worlds great powers, including the Seven Years ' War, the Napoleonic Wars, the Crimean War, World War I and World War II.

Russian activity led to the Crimean War.

Among these actions were the Seven Years ' War, the American Revolutionary War, the Napoleonic Wars, the First and Second Opium Wars, the Boxer Rebellion, the New Zealand land wars, the Sepoy Rebellion of 1857, the First and Second Boer Wars, the Fenian raids, the Irish War of Independence, its serial interventions into Afghanistan ( which were meant to maintain a friendly buffer state between British India and the Russian Empire ), and the Crimean War ( to keep the Russian Empire at a safe distance by coming to Turkey's aid ).

* The Charge of the Light Brigade, about the Battle of Balaclava in the Crimean War

Illustration by William Simpson ( artist ) | William Simpson shows action in a British artillery battery during the Crimean War with cannons firing and being loaded, and men bringing in supplies.

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* 1856 – A Peace conference opened in Paris after Crimean War.

However, it only ran two trips between St Petersburg and Hull via Motala before the Crimean War halted Anglo-Russian trade.

This war would eventually be called Crimean War, but the entire foreign policy negotiations surrounding the dismemberment of the Ottoman Empire, which would continue throughout the middle and end of nineteenth century the problem would be referred to as the " Eastern Question.

Thus, he was really not in favor of the entrance of into the Crimean War.

However the Eastern Question and the resulting Crimean War proved to be the downfall of his government.

Gallipoli became a major encampment for British and French forces in 1854 during the Crimean War, and the harbour was also a stopping-off point on the way to Constantinople.

) There are numerous schools and a small museum ; a large cemetery is the resting place of many French soldiers who died of disease ( chiefly cholera ) during the Crimean War.

He helped in the unification of Italy by fighting the Austrian Empire and fought the Crimean War with the United Kingdom and the Ottoman Empire against Russia.

) This instigated the Crimean War in 1854 and began a tenser period of minor clashes among the globe-spanning empires of Europe that set the stage for the First World War.

* 1854 – The Battle of Balaklava during the Crimean War ( Charge of the Light Brigade ).

* October 25 – Crimean War – Battle of Balaclava: The allies gain an overall victory, except for the disastrous cavalry Charge of the Light Brigade, from which only 200 of 700 men survive.

The Crimean War saw the most infamous though ultimately unsuccessful use of the lance, the Charge of the Light Brigade.

The Crimean War ; the Charge of the Light Brigade ; Russian invasion of Central Asia.

The Crimean War ; the Charge of the Light Brigade.

* In Flashman at the Charge Flashman is forced by Yakub Beg to shoot Congreve rockets against the Russian army during the period of the Crimean War.

The cardigan was named after James Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan, a British Army Major General who led the Charge of the Light Brigade at the Battle of Balaclava during the Crimean War.

The title became notorious when George Bingham, 3rd Earl of Lucan, as cavalry commander in the Crimean War, was one of the men involved in the ill-fated Charge of the Light Brigade.

One policeman stationed there during the early 1860s was Samuel Parkes, who won the Victoria Cross in the Charge of the Light Brigade in 1854, during the Crimean War.

* Charge of the Light Brigade ( October 25, 1854 ) at the Battle of Balaklava in the Crimean War.

He was an Irish reporter with The Times, and is considered to have been one of the first modern war correspondents, after he spent 22 months covering the Crimean War including the Charge of the Light Brigade.

Flashman also encounters the character of " Scud " East twice, first in Flashman at the Charge, when both he and East are prisoners of war during the Crimean War, and again in Flashman in the Great Game at the Siege of Cawnpore during the Indian Mutiny of 1857.

The town became famous for the Battle of Balaclava during the Crimean War thanks to the suicidal Charge of the Light Brigade, a British cavalry charge due to a misunderstanding sent up a valley strongly held on three sides by the Russians, in which about 250 men were killed or wounded, and over 400 horses lost, effectively reducing the size of the mounted brigade by two thirds and destroying some of the finest light cavalry in the world to no military purpose.

Liberals rallied to Gladstone's anti-elitism, pointing to the case of Lord Cardigan ( 1797 – 1868 ), who spent £ 40, 000 for his commission and proved utterly incompetent in the Crimean war, where he ordered the disastrous " Charge of the Light Brigade " in 1854.

The 17th Lancers ( Duke of Cambridge's Own ) was a cavalry regiment of the British Army, notable for its participation in the Charge of the Light Brigade in the Crimean War.

An earlier monument on this site was a statue of Viscount Fitzgibbon, who was killed in The Charge of the Light Brigade at Balaclava in 1854, flanked by two Russian cannon captured in the Crimean War.

The 17th Lancers, however, were still at the Crimean War, having lost most of their complement in the Charge of the Light Brigade in the previous year.

Whilst serving in the Crimean War, he rode in the Charge of the Light Brigade at the Battle of Balaclava.

He won his VC on 25 October 1854 in the Charge of the Light Brigade during the Battle of Balaklava during the Crimean War, when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC:

One of the soldiers who fought in the Charge of the Light Brigade during the Crimean war.

It is named for James Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan, who led the Charge of the Light Brigade in the Crimean War ( 1854 ).

He fought in the Crimean War and died there during a disastrous battle which occurred after he accidentally sent his unit off in the wrong direction ( this mimics the classical " Charge of the Light Brigade "; Anton directs the Light Armoured Brigade into the teeth of the Russian artillery ).

It is set in the Crimean War, and follows Ryder through the battles of Alma and Inkerman as well as the Charge of the Light Brigade at Balaklava.

Lieutenant General James Thomas Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan, KCB ( 16 October 1797 – 28 March 1868 ), was an officer in the British Army who commanded the Light Brigade during the Crimean War.

His most notorious exploit took place during the Crimean War on 25 October 1854 when, in command of the Light Cavalry Brigade at the battle of Balaclava, he led the charge of the Light Brigade, reaching the Russian guns before returning, personally unscathed, in a manoeuvre that cost the lives of about 107 out of the 674 men under his command who took part in the charge ( although others may have died of wounds later on ).

However, as the Crimean winter fell over the Light Brigade's exposed position, food, fodder, clothing and shelter were all in short supply.

The 11th Hussars charged with the Light Brigade, which was commanded by their former Colonel, Lord Cardigan, at Balaklava during the Crimean War.

Alexander was a private in the 90th Perthshire Light Infantry ( later known as The Cameronians ( Scottish Rifles )), British Army during the Crimean War when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC:

He was 27 years old, and a captain in the 68th Regiment of Foot ( later The Durham Light Infantry ), British Army during the Crimean War when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC due to his actions at Sebastopol.