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Crimean War 1853-1856; Associated keywords Planning; Category. photographs: Licensing. This image is in the public domain because it is a mere mechanical scan or ...
The Battle of Akhaltsikhe (Russian: Ахалцихское сражение, Georgian: ახალციხის ბრძოლა) occurred on 13 November 1853 during the Crimean War when a Georgian-Russian force of 7,000 defeated a Turkish army of 18,000 men near the Akhaltsikhe fortress in the Caucasus.
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 Battle of Sinop, or the Battle of Sinope, was a naval battle that took place on 30 November 1853 between Imperial Russia and the Ottoman Empire during the opening phase of the Crimean War (1853–1856). [5] It took place at Sinop, a sea port on the southern shore of the Black Sea (the northern shore of Anatolian Turkey). [5]
68-pounder Lancaster guns were a British rifled muzzle-loading cannon of the 1850s that fired a 68-pound shell. [1] It was designed by Charles William Lancaster. [2] The cannon was designed with an oval bore and had a range of about 6,500 yd (5.9 km). [3]
The Enfield Pattern 1853 rifle-musket (also known as the Pattern 1853 Enfield, P53 Enfield, and Enfield rifle-musket) was a .577 calibre Minié-type muzzle-loading rifled musket, used by the British Empire from 1853 to 1867; after which many were replaced in service by the cartridge-loaded Snider–Enfield rifle.
As such, Adams revolvers saw heavy combat in Crimean war (1853–1856) and Indian Mutiny of 1857. In these conflicts, Adams revolvers were deemed better than Colts, due to their higher rate of fire at close range and better stopping power (due to their larger caliber, 0.44 vs 0.36 in the Colt Navy).
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.