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 ).

In the Crimean War, the Charge of the Light Brigade and the Thin Red Line at the Battle of Balaclava showed the vulnerability of cavalry, when deployed without effective support.

* 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.

In 1854, The Second Empire joined the Crimean War, which saw France and Britain opposed to the Russian Empire, which was decisively defeated at Sevastopol in 1854-1855 and at Inkerman ( 1854 ).

The Crimean War was the first service which the regiments saw outside Algeria.

He saw action in the Crimean War as an officer in the British army, but he made his military reputation in China, where he was placed in command of the " Ever Victorious Army ", a force of Chinese soldiers led by European officers.

It also saw Russian wheat supplies cut off by the Crimean War.

Economic and political migrations had impact across the empire, for instance the Russian and Austria-Habsburg annexation of the Crimean and Balkan regions saw large influxes of Muslim refugees – 200, 000 Crimean Tartars fleeing to Dobruja.

Both battalions saw active service in the Crimean War, with the 1st fighting at the battles of Alma and Inkerman ( 1854 ), and both fighting in the Siege of Sevastopol ( 1854-5 ), where the regiment's first VC was won.

Tsar Alexander II, who succeeded Nicholas I in 1855, was a man of a liberal disposition, who saw no alternative but to implement change in the aftermath of the Crimean War.

* The first six weeks of the Franco-Prussian War saw French armies, convinced of their superiority following French victories in the Crimean War and the wars of Italian unification, enter a war with Prussia convinced that their weapons and tactics would easily defeat the Prussians.

With their traditional adversaries, the Crimean Khanate and Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth now all but defunct, the Russian administration saw little military use for them.

Smith entered the British Army in 1849 and saw action during the Crimean War at Alma, Inkerman and Sebastopol.

Hughes was approximately 33 years old and a private in 7th Regiment of Foot ( now The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers ), British Army when, during the Crimean War, he performed the acts that saw him recommended for the VC.

Born the second sons of Lieutenant General Humphrey Lyons, Lyons joined the Royal Navy in 1847 and saw service in the Crimean War, where he was appointed flag-lieutenant to his uncle, Lord Lyons.

The 19th century saw further expansion, with the Quarter meeting the demand for the Napoleonic Wars, Crimean War, American Civil War and the furthest outposts of the British Empire.

During the Crimean War a large saw mill was erected in Turin by a gun maker from the quarter, and nearly a third of a million gun stocks were produced from this source alone.

After completing medical school in Moscow Leontiev saw service as a doctor during the Crimean War.

The Cossacks are thought to have numbered as much 100, 000 men, most of them low-grade foot troops, plus 40, 000 allied Crimean Tatar cavalry and a few thousand Turks and Vlachs.

For Britain, the Second Boer War was the longest, the most expensive (£ 200 million ), and the bloodiest conflict between 1815 and 1914, lasting three months longer and resulting in higher British casualties than the Crimean War ( 1853 – 56 ).

In Romania, according to the 2002 census, 24, 000 people declared their ethnicity as Tatar, most of them being Crimean Tatars living in Constanţa County in the region of Dobruja.

It was one of the most powerful maritime republic in the Mediterranean from the 12th to the 14th century: after the decisive victory in the battle of Meloria ( 1284 ), it acquired control over the Tyrrhenian Sea and was present in the nerve centres of power during the last phase of the Byzantine empire, having colonies up to Black Sea and Crimean.

Florence Nightingale's most famous contribution came during the Crimean War, which became her central focus when reports got back to Britain about the horrific conditions for the wounded.

However, T. Lindsay Buick in his landmark 1914 book ' The Treaty of Waitangi: or how New Zealand became a British Colony ', clearly reproduces written instructions drafted by Edward Cardwell of the Colonial Office ( Cardwell later became Viscount Cardwell and was most noted for his reforms of the British Army after the disaster of the Crimean War ).

The remnants of the Crimean Cumans survived in the Crimean mountains while most of the peninsula was resettled by the invading Mongols.

A fatal blow to the Horde was dealt by Tamerlane, who annihilated Tokhtamysh's army, destroyed his capital, looted the Crimean trade centers, and deported the most skillful craftsmen to his own capital in Samarkand in 1395 – 6.

The most important harbor is the Crimean city of Kerch which gives its name to the strait, formerly known as the Cimmerian Bosporus.

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 ).

The most important additions to the royal collection were made by John II Casimir, a passionate collector of Dutch paintings, and a patron of Daniel Schultz ( who painted a famous portrait of a son of Crimean Aga Dedesh, and was made Royal falconer in reward for his father's contribution during the war with Russia in 1663 ).

* Soldiers of subject, protectorate, or allied states ( the most important being the Crimean Khans )

By the end of the Crimean War, pipe bands were established in most of the Scottish Regiments.

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.

Pavel Stepanovich Nakhimov (, ; – was one of the most famous admirals in Russian naval history, best remembered as the commander of naval and land forces during the Siege of Sevastopol during the Crimean War.

While in Istanbul, he was appointed Prince of Samos ( 1854-1859 ), where he proved his leadership skills by extirpating local piracy ( most of which was aimed at transports supplying the Crimean War ).

The origins of the Balkar people have not yet been definitively established: various hypotheses have associated them with the Huns, the Khazars, the Bulgars ( most probable theory, as the name Balkar and Bulgar are nearly identical ), the Alans, the Zikhs, the Brukhs, the Kipchaks and Cumans the Vengrians, the Chekhs, the Mongol Tatars, the Crimean Tatars, and Turkicized Japhetic groups.

Besides the Gordons, most of his troops were inexperienced and their regiments had not seen action since the Crimean War.

" His government reversed most of Stalin's deportations, although it was not until as late as 1991 that the Crimean Tatars, Meskhs and Volga Germans were allowed to return en masse to their homelands.

Today, the city has a population of 340, 600 ( 2006 ) most of whom are ethnic Russians, with the rest being Ukrainian and Crimean Tatar minorities.

During the centuries following the Fall of Rome, as the schism between the dioceses loyal to the Pope of Rome in the West and those loyal to the other Patriarchs in the East grew, most of the Germanic peoples ( excepting the Crimean Goths and a few other eastern groups ) would gradually become strongly allied with the Catholic Church in the West, particularly as a result of the reign of Charlemagne.

His general approach to the history of the Crimean War is a “ mixture of criticism of the imperialistic character of the war and glorification of the Russian people .” The standard Soviet approach to the Sevastopol siege had been written by the “ official historian of the Stalin era .” Tarle became one of the most influential figures in the historical front.

Alfred Ablett VC DCM ( 3 Augest 1830 – 12 March 1897 ) was an English Crimean War recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.