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860 matches to Crimean War
Alexander II. 1818-81. Russian Czar 1855-. Emancipated serfs, 1861. Established elected assemblies, Zemstvo, settled Crimean War. Assassinated by Narodniki.
Balaklava, Battle. 1854. Crimean War. Indecisive British victory at high cost. Charge of Light Brigade.
Cardigan, James Brudenell, Earl of. 1797-1868. British General. Led Charge of the Light Brigade. Tennyson. Crimean War.
Crimean War. 1853-6. Russian attempt to get a Mediterranean port stopped by Turkey, England, France, Sardinia. Dispute over Holy places in Palestine.
Eastern Question. 19-20C. Instability caused by decline of Turkish rule led to Crimean War and WWI.
Hamilton-Gordon, George. 1784-1860. British Prime Minister 1852-55. Oregon Treaty. Crimean War.
Inkerman, Battle. 1854. Crimean War defeat of Russians by English and French.
Nightingale, Florence. 1820-1910. English pioneer of nursing in Crimean War. “The lady with the lamp.”
Palmerston, Lord. 1784-1865. English Whig Prime Minister 1855~65. Secretary of War 1809-28. Foreign Secretary 1830~51. Crimean War. American Civil War.
Paris, Congress. 1856. Austria, France, Britain, Russia, Ottomans, Sardinia end Crimean War.
Paris, Treaties. 1229 Ends Albigensian Crusade. Louis gains Toulouse. 1327. England loses territory to France. 1763 Ends Seven Years War. Britain gets French holdings in Canada. Spain gets American territory. 1783 Ends American Revolution. US borders fixed. 1814 Ends Napoleonic Wars, restoring 1792 borders. Napoleon exiled to Elba. 1815 Ends Hundred Days. 1790 borders, reparations. Napoleon to St. Helena. 1856 Ends Crimean War. Black Sea neutral. Regulated Laws of High Seas. 1898 Ends Spanish American War. Spain cedes Cuba, Philippines, Puerto Rico to US. 1947. Settled European borders after WWII.
Russo-Turkish Wars. 16-19C. Russia gains Black Sea to Balkans from crumbling Ottoman Empire in 10 wars. Assist Serb, Romanian independence. Crimean War.
Sebastapol, Siege. 1854. 11 mos. Allied Crimean War victory. First trench warfare. Florence Nightingale.
Shamil. 1798-1871. Moslem guerilla leader vs Russia in Crimean War.
Zouaves. 1831-71. French African infantry. Algeria. Crimean War.
Alma, Battle. 1854 Crimean War. French and British defeat Russians at Sebastapol.
Colonial Wars. 1834-1902. British wars against Sikhs, Burmese, Crimeans, Boers.
Aarau Treaty. 1712. Ended Swiss War.
Abel, Frederick. 1827-1902. English inventor of military explosive cordite with Dewar, 1889.
Abyssinia-Italy War. 1894-6. Ended Italian colonialism.
Abyssinian War. 1935-6. Italy invades Ethiopia. League of Nations ineffective.
Achilles. Greek hero of Trojan Wars, invulnerable except for his heel, subject of Homer’s Iliad.
Achinese War. 1873-1904. Dutch defeat Moslems in Sumatra.
Adenauer, Konrad. 1876-1967. First chancellor of German Federal Republic., 1949-63. Stabilized postwar Germany.
Adrianople, Treaty. 1829. Ends Russo-Turkish War. Ottomans cede control of Greece.