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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.
The Crimean War [d] was fought between the Russian Empire and an alliance of the Ottoman Empire, France, the United Kingdom, and Sardinia-Piedmont from October 1853 to February 1856. [9]
The following year, the ship sailed to Sevastopol, and she thereafter operated with the Black Sea Fleet, cruising in the Black Sea through 1853. Following the outbreak of the Crimean War with the Ottoman Empire in October 1853, Chesma was used as part of an effort to carry soldiers to Sukhumi to strengthen defenses in the Caucasus; Chesma ...
The Treaty of Paris of 1856, signed on 30 March 1856 at the Congress of Paris, brought an end to the Crimean War (1853–1856) between the Russian Empire and an alliance of the Ottoman Empire, the United Kingdom, the Second French Empire and the Kingdom of Sardinia. [1] [2] The treaty diminished Russian influence in the region.
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]
What became the Crimean War formally started between the Russian Empire and the Ottoman Empire in October 1853. [2] France and Great Britain declared war on Russia in March 1854. [ 3 ] In 1854 the Russians laid 60 Jacobi mines in the vicinity of the Forts Pavel and Alexander ( Kronstadt ), in order to deter the British Baltic Fleet and its ...
In October 1853, after the outbreak of the Crimean War between Russia and the Ottoman Empire that month, she carried a contingent of 939 soldiers to Sukhumi. With the mobilization of Russian forces for the conflict, Imperatritsa Maria served as the flagship of a squadron commanded by Vice Admiral Pavel Nakhimov .
In 1853, the armament was revised, with four of the 68-pounder shell guns being moved to the upper deck and their place on the lower deck being taken by four of the 36-pounder guns. The upper deck battery of 36-pounders was reduced to twenty-eight guns, and all of the carronades were removed from the forecastle and quarterdeck.