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  1. During the #CrimeanWar soldiers died in appalling conditions, but the treatment of enemy prisoners was surprisingly humane.

    🔒 Donald Rayfield’s recent feature is waiting for you in the archive

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  2. During the #CrimeanWar soldiers died in appalling conditions, but the treatment of enemy prisoners was surprisingly humane.

    🔒 Donald Rayfield’s recent feature is waiting for you in the archive

    historytoday.com/archive/featu

  3. During the #CrimeanWar soldiers died in appalling conditions, but the treatment of enemy prisoners was surprisingly humane.

    🔒 Donald Rayfield’s recent feature is waiting for you in the archive

    historytoday.com/archive/featu

  4. During the #CrimeanWar soldiers died in appalling conditions, but the treatment of enemy prisoners was surprisingly humane.

    🔒 Donald Rayfield’s recent feature is waiting for you in the archive

    historytoday.com/archive/featu

  5. During the #CrimeanWar soldiers died in appalling conditions, but the treatment of enemy prisoners was surprisingly humane.

    🔒 Donald Rayfield’s recent feature is waiting for you in the archive

    historytoday.com/archive/featu

  6. OTD in 1854, greatly outnumbered #AlliedForces defeated the army of Imperial #Russia in what #histodons call “the Soldier’s Battle” of the #CrimeanWar. It occurred in present day Inkerman, #Ukraine. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_o

    Thankfully 🙏, #Crimea is still #Ukraine on @wikipedia and on the streets of #London. ⬇️

  7. OTD in 1854, greatly outnumbered #AlliedForces defeated the army of Imperial #Russia in what #histodons call “the Soldier’s Battle” of the #CrimeanWar. It occurred in present day Inkerman, #Ukraine. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_o

    Thankfully 🙏, #Crimea is still #Ukraine on @wikipedia and on the streets of #London. ⬇️

  8. OTD in 1854, greatly outnumbered #AlliedForces defeated the army of Imperial #Russia in what #histodons call “the Soldier’s Battle” of the #CrimeanWar. It occurred in present day Inkerman, #Ukraine. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_o

    Thankfully 🙏, #Crimea is still #Ukraine on @wikipedia and on the streets of #London. ⬇️

  9. OTD in 1854, greatly outnumbered #AlliedForces defeated the army of Imperial #Russia in what #histodons call “the Soldier’s Battle” of the #CrimeanWar. It occurred in present day Inkerman, #Ukraine. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_o

    Thankfully 🙏, #Crimea is still #Ukraine on @wikipedia and on the streets of #London. ⬇️

  10. OTD in 1854, greatly outnumbered #AlliedForces defeated the army of Imperial #Russia in what #histodons call “the Soldier’s Battle” of the #CrimeanWar. It occurred in present day Inkerman, #Ukraine. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_o

    Thankfully 🙏, #Crimea is still #Ukraine on @wikipedia and on the streets of #London. ⬇️

  11. Hearing the Crimean War: Wartime Sound and the Unmaking of Sense

    What does sound, whether preserved or lost, tell us about nineteenth-century wartime? Hearing the Crimean War: Wartime Sound and the Unmaking of Sense pursues this question through the many territories affected by the Crimean War, including Britain, France, Turkey, Russia, Italy, Poland, Latvia, Dagestan, Chechnya, and Crimea.

    @bookstodon
    #CrimeanWar
    #19thCentury
    #warfare
    #sound

  12. Hearing the Crimean War: Wartime Sound and the Unmaking of Sense

    What does sound, whether preserved or lost, tell us about nineteenth-century wartime? Hearing the Crimean War: Wartime Sound and the Unmaking of Sense pursues this question through the many territories affected by the Crimean War, including Britain, France, Turkey, Russia, Italy, Poland, Latvia, Dagestan, Chechnya, and Crimea.

    @bookstodon
    #CrimeanWar
    #19thCentury
    #warfare
    #sound

  13. Hearing the Crimean War: Wartime Sound and the Unmaking of Sense

    What does sound, whether preserved or lost, tell us about nineteenth-century wartime? Hearing the Crimean War: Wartime Sound and the Unmaking of Sense pursues this question through the many territories affected by the Crimean War, including Britain, France, Turkey, Russia, Italy, Poland, Latvia, Dagestan, Chechnya, and Crimea.

    @bookstodon
    #CrimeanWar
    #19thCentury
    #warfare
    #sound

  14. Hearing the Crimean War: Wartime Sound and the Unmaking of Sense

    What does sound, whether preserved or lost, tell us about nineteenth-century wartime? Hearing the Crimean War: Wartime Sound and the Unmaking of Sense pursues this question through the many territories affected by the Crimean War, including Britain, France, Turkey, Russia, Italy, Poland, Latvia, Dagestan, Chechnya, and Crimea.

    @bookstodon
    #CrimeanWar
    #19thCentury
    #warfare
    #sound

  15. Hearing the Crimean War: Wartime Sound and the Unmaking of Sense

    What does sound, whether preserved or lost, tell us about nineteenth-century wartime? Hearing the Crimean War: Wartime Sound and the Unmaking of Sense pursues this question through the many territories affected by the Crimean War, including Britain, France, Turkey, Russia, Italy, Poland, Latvia, Dagestan, Chechnya, and Crimea.

    @bookstodon
    #CrimeanWar
    #19thCentury
    #warfare
    #sound

  16. 4. He returned home to England as a hero. He was discharged in 1861 after serving 12 years in the army. On retirement he became a jailer at York Castle.
    He died in 1909, York. Buried in York Cemetery. A firing party at his funeral was provided by the 5th Royal Irish Lancers. He was a hero of Balaclava. #crimeanwar #history

  17. 4. He returned home to England as a hero. He was discharged in 1861 after serving 12 years in the army. On retirement he became a jailer at York Castle.
    He died in 1909, York. Buried in York Cemetery. A firing party at his funeral was provided by the 5th Royal Irish Lancers. He was a hero of Balaclava. #crimeanwar #history

  18. 4. He returned home to England as a hero. He was discharged in 1861 after serving 12 years in the army. On retirement he became a jailer at York Castle.
    He died in 1909, York. Buried in York Cemetery. A firing party at his funeral was provided by the 5th Royal Irish Lancers. He was a hero of Balaclava. #crimeanwar #history

  19. 3. This young solder, one of the 17th Lancers was one of the brave 600 who rode into the “Valley of Death” during the battle of Balaclava in 1854. He was one of the trumpeters who sounded the charge.
    William was just one of the few soldiers who returned from the ill-fated charge, led by Lord Cardigan. #crimeanwar #history

  20. 3. This young solder, one of the 17th Lancers was one of the brave 600 who rode into the “Valley of Death” during the battle of Balaclava in 1854. He was one of the trumpeters who sounded the charge.
    William was just one of the few soldiers who returned from the ill-fated charge, led by Lord Cardigan. #crimeanwar #history

  21. 3. This young solder, one of the 17th Lancers was one of the brave 600 who rode into the “Valley of Death” during the battle of Balaclava in 1854. He was one of the trumpeters who sounded the charge.
    William was just one of the few soldiers who returned from the ill-fated charge, led by Lord Cardigan. #crimeanwar #history

  22. 2. He survived the deadly charge of the Light Brigade where he received a lance wound in his side thanks to two people helping him, his faithful horse, and the legendary Florence Nightingale. He ended up at Scutari Hospital, Turkey where he was nursed by Florence Nightingale. He subsequently volunteered for service in India where he served throughout the Mutiny. #crimeanwar #history

  23. 2. He survived the deadly charge of the Light Brigade where he received a lance wound in his side thanks to two people helping him, his faithful horse, and the legendary Florence Nightingale. He ended up at Scutari Hospital, Turkey where he was nursed by Florence Nightingale. He subsequently volunteered for service in India where he served throughout the Mutiny. #crimeanwar #history

  24. 2. He survived the deadly charge of the Light Brigade where he received a lance wound in his side thanks to two people helping him, his faithful horse, and the legendary Florence Nightingale. He ended up at Scutari Hospital, Turkey where he was nursed by Florence Nightingale. He subsequently volunteered for service in India where he served throughout the Mutiny. #crimeanwar #history

  25. 1. Private William Pearson 17th Lancers, Crimean War.
    William Pearson was the son of John and Mary Pearson. William was born in 1825, Doncaster. He married Hannah Froggatt, and they had three daughters.
    He enlisted in the17th Lancers nicknamed the ‘Death of the Glory Boys in 1848. #crimeanwar #history

  26. 1. Private William Pearson 17th Lancers, Crimean War.
    William Pearson was the son of John and Mary Pearson. William was born in 1825, Doncaster. He married Hannah Froggatt, and they had three daughters.
    He enlisted in the17th Lancers nicknamed the ‘Death of the Glory Boys in 1848. #crimeanwar #history

  27. 1. Private William Pearson 17th Lancers, Crimean War.
    William Pearson was the son of John and Mary Pearson. William was born in 1825, Doncaster. He married Hannah Froggatt, and they had three daughters.
    He enlisted in the17th Lancers nicknamed the ‘Death of the Glory Boys in 1848. #crimeanwar #history

  28. I didn’t know the #Sardinians had anything to do with the Crimean War until today, but apparently they sent troops too.

    And also a Russian general named Khrulev proposed blowing up the city of Sevastopol and then doing a mass suicide charge into the allied positions, with the attitude of “Let everybody die! We will leave our mark upon the map!”

    #CrimeanWar
    #history

    @histodons
    @bookstodon