The British and French armies landed on the Crimean Peninsula on 14thSeptember 1854, intending to capture the Russian naval base of Sevastopol in the south-west of the Crimea. The landing took place on the western Crimean coast some fifteen miles to the north of the port. Royal Artillery on ...
Account of the Battle of Balaclava:In mid-September 1854, the British and French armies, with a small Turkish contingent, landed on the western Crimean coast, 30 miles north of Sevastopol, with the aim of capturing this important Russian Black Sea city and naval base. 4th and 5th Dragoon Gu...
The trouble began on June 27, a few days after the ship set sail from Sevastopol to conduct practice maneuvers. That morning, a group of conscripted crewmen discovered that the beef intended for their lunchtime borscht was crawling with maggots. The sailors complained to their officers, but ...
When Germany invaded the Soviet Union in Jun 1941, the Parizhskava Kommuna was in reserve in Sevastopol. On 30 Oct 1941, she moved to Novorossiysk when the enemy entered the Crimean peninsula. Parizhskava Kommuna would carry out a number of naval gunfire support missions against Axis targets ...
Who did Russia fight in the Crimean War? Who fought in the Turkish War of Independence? Who won the Battle of Cannae? What was the result of the Macedonian Wars? Who won the Second Battle of Kharkov? Who won the Siege of Sevastopol? What was the Third Balkan War? Where did the Balkan...
Battle of Stalingrad, successful Soviet defense of the city of Stalingrad that was a turning point in favor of the Allies in World War II. Russians consider it to be one of the greatest battles of their Great Patriotic War, and most historians consider i
of Sevastopol. As the allies marched south along the coast, a brief skirmish with Russian forces occurred at the Bulganek on September 19, but the Russians quickly retreated. At the next river, the Alma, the Russians held their ground, and the first major conflict of the Crimean War, the...
Battle of Kursk, (July 5–August 23, 1943), unsuccessful German assault on the Soviet salient around the city of Kursk, in western Russia, during World War II. The salient was a bulge in the Soviet lines that stretched 150 miles (240 km) from north to so
They installed a new prime minister, Sergey Aksyonov, whose party had received only about 4 percent of the vote in the most recent elections. Members of the self-declared Crimean militia, backed by 25,000 troops and sailors attached to the Russian Black Sea Fleet in Sevastopol, took over ...
Charge of the Light Brigade, disastrous British cavalry charge against heavily defended Russian troops at the Battle of Balaklava that was carried out on Oct. 25 (Oct. 13, Old Style), 1854, during the Crimean War. The suicidal attack placed the British l