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The Crimean War started in October 1853 between Russia and the Ottoman Empire, which was joined the following year by France and the United Kingdom.The British public had developed a negative view of the war, so Queen Victoria invited Fenton to document the war with his photographic work, to give a more favourable view of the conflict.
Valley of the Shadow of Death, by Roger Fenton, one of the most famous pictures of the Crimean War [74] Nicholas felt that because of Russian assistance in suppressing the Hungarian revolution of 1848, Austria would side with him or at the very least remain neutral. Austria, however, felt threatened by the Russian troops in the Balkans.
Roger Fenton was sent by Thomas Agnew of Agnew & Sons to record the Crimean War, where the United Kingdom, the Second French Empire, the Kingdom of Sardinia, and the Ottoman Empire were fighting a war against the Russian Empire. The place of the picture was named by British soldiers The Valley of Death for being under constant shelling there. [3]
The Crimean War 1854 - 1856: Roger Fenton: A morning conference for the allied commanders Lord Raglan, Omar Pasha and Marshal Pelissier. Date between 1854 and 1856
During the Crimean War of 1853–1856, the final Baltic Fleet was the largest assembled since the Napoleonic Wars, and in terms of armament the most powerful naval force the Royal Navy possessed in the mid-19th century. [3] Pictured right is the fleet sailing from Spithead on 11 March 1854.
The Grand Crimean Central Railway was a military railway built in 1855 during the Crimean War by the United Kingdom. Its purpose was to supply ammunition and provisions to Allied soldiers engaged in the Siege of Sevastopol who were stationed on a plateau between Balaklava and Sevastopol. It also carried the world's first hospital train.
The Guards Crimean War Memorial is a Grade II listed [1] memorial in St James's, London, that commemorates the Allied victory in the Crimean War of 1853–56. It is located on Waterloo Place, at the junction of Regent Street and Pall Mall, approximately one-quarter of the way from the Duke of York Column to Piccadilly Circus.
The Battle of Oltenița (or Oltenitza) was fought on 4 November 1853 and was the first engagement of the Crimean War.In this battle an Ottoman army under the command of Omar Pasha was defending its fortified positions from the Russian forces led by General Peter Dannenberg, until the Russians were ordered to withdraw. [8]