Extra History If it Bleeds, it Leads! - The Crimean War Posted: April 9, 2025 | Last updated: April 9, 2025 The Russians are on the attack trying to take over the black sea but this battle has a ...

Russia’s illegal seizure of Crimea from Ukraine 11 years ago was quick and bloodless. But Kyiv and most of the world never ...

Lord Aberdeen was replaced by Lord Palmerston during the Crimean War, Herbert Asquith by David Lloyd George during the Great War, Neville Chamberlain by Winston Churchill during the Second World War.

For nearly two years in Russian captivity, Leniye Umerova clung to a single hope: that one day, she would return home — to ...

(Luke 10: 25-37) In the context of nursing medical care, Jamaican Mary Seacole did not need the approval of British Florence Nightingale to minister to wounded soldiers in the Crimean War.

In Ukraine, memories of Russia’s annexation are fresh and resentments run high, leaving the country’s president few choices ...

The Crimean War, when British, French and Turkish troops united to invade the Crimea in 1854 and take the naval base at Sevastopol from the Russians, was in many ways the first modern war.

These are the key events on day 1,157 of Russia’s war on Ukraine. Here is where things stand on Saturday, April 26: A senior ...

Trump's remarks have reignited debate over the status of the Crimean Peninsula, which Russia annexed from Ukraine in 2014.

Rather, a combination of diplomatic cooperation and a balance of power kept order until the Crimean War and the unifications of Germany and Italy disrupted it. A yet older example of such cooperation ...

36. Who was the only British Prime Minister to be assassinated? 37. What was the name of the treaty that ended the Crimean War in 1856? 38. What was the code name for the British evacuation from ...

There are fascinating associations with Jane Austen and also a captain at the Charge of the Light Brigade who rebuilt the house when he returned to Hampshire after the Crimean War . . . These ...