Armenians: emigrate to Transcaucasia new settlers in the Crimea
armies, comparison of costs of belligerents
army chaplains: André Damas (French army) British Army
artillery: allied bombardment of Sevastopol ineffective against Minié rifles at Inkerman Russian counter bombardment
Assembly of Nobles (Sevastopol): used as hospital
Association for the Protection of Turkey and Other Countries …
Astrakhan (Mongol khanate)
atrocities: alleged after Balaklava alleged after Inkerman allied troops in Kerch Bashi Bazouks in Bulgaria in Constantinople (1821) Giurgevo religious justification for Tatar bands
Attwood, Thomas
Austria-Hungary: neutrality assured by future territorial gains Three Emperors’ League (1873)
Austrian army, in Wallachia (1854)
Austrian Empire: armed neutrality in favour of allies benevolent neutrality with respect to Russia demands Napoleon III’s peaceful intentions demands Russian withdrawal from principalities direct talks with Russians fearful of Slav uprisings Four Points for Peace with Russia (1854) Franco-Austrian peace ultimatum hopes for alliance with Russia hoping to negotiate a peace Italian independence and military alliance with France and Britain mobilizes troops (1853 & 1854) motives for invading principalities negotiations with Britain and France Paris Peace Congress (1856) peace initiative, the Vienna Note (1853) ready to march into Serbia 1848 revolutions Russian foreign policy and Russian partition plans (1852) and Russian plans for Greece (1820s) steps back from war with Ottomans support from Gorchakov over revolution in Italy threatens to join anti-Russian alliance Triple Alliance (1856) and Tsar Nicholas’ Ottoman partition plans Vienna Conference (1855) war with French and Piedmontese (1859) war with Prussia (1866) wary of Russia in Slav lands
Bakhchiserai Museum of the Alma reserve hospital
Bakunin, Mikhail
Bakunina, Ekaterina (nurse)
Balaklava, British supply base
Balaklava, battle of (1854)
Balaklava helmets
Balaklava Railway
Balkan League
Balkan War (1853 – 4)
Balkans: continuing conflict between Christians and Muslims Czartoryski’s plan hoped for Slav/Christian uprisings Nationalism pan-Slavism retreat of Austria Russia and Russian partition plans (1852) seeds of future wars status quo guaranteed by Three Emperors’ League (1873) theatre of war
Balta Liman, Act of (1849)
Baltic campaign (1854)
Baltic campaign (1855)
Baltic provinces, of Russia, Palmerston’s plans for
Bariatinsky, Prince Alexander I (viceroy of the Caucasus) fears British presence on the Caspian Sea
Bariatinsky, Prince Vladimir I (Flag Lt to Adm Kornilov)
Barrett, Jerry,
Bashi Bazouks atrocities cholera and retreat to Varna in French service at Giurgevo
Bazancourt, César de
Beaumont, Thomas Wentworth
Beeton, Samuel,
Belarus, Ruthenian (Uniate) Catholics
Belgium, Russia and
Belgrade, Turkish bombardment
Bell, Col George (1st (Royal) Regt): complaint about uniforms letter to
Bell, George and James Bell (shipping company)
Bell, John (sculptor), Guards’ Memorial (London)
Bellew, Walter (assistant surgeon)
Bem, General Jozef
Berlin, Congress (1878)
Bessarabia boundary debated at Paris Peace Congress (1856) boundary dispute with Moldavia and Franco-Austrian peace terms (1855) mobilization of Russian troops (1852) Palmerston’s plans for refugee problem (1820 – 21) riots and attacks on Christians
Bezborodko, Count Alexander
Bibescu, Prince Gheorghe of Romania
Bineau, Jean (French Finance Minister), argues against war
Bismarck, Otto von
Black Sea: declared neutral by Paris Peace Congress (1856) no firm pledge from France on penal clauses related Paris Congress clauses annulled (1871) Russian fleet recommissioned
Black Sea region: buffer zone Christian-Muslim relations crucial for Russian security and trade demilitarization of London Convention (1841) and religious and ethnic transmigration
Blakesley, Revd Joseph, letters to
Bloomfield, Pvt (Derbys Regt): recollections of Alma recollections of Inkerman
Bludova, Antonina, Countess
Blunt, John (Turkish language interpreter)
Bond, Sgt (11th Hussars)
Bondurand, Baron, military intendant to Marshal Castellane
Borgo, Pozzo di
Borodino, battle of (1812)
Bosnia: pan-Slav movement and promised to Austria-Hungary revolts by Christians
Bosquet, General Pierre François: at Balaklava at Inkerman orders attack on the Mamelon removed from command before Malakhov second Malakhov battle
Botanov, Mikhail, in Sevastopol
Bourqueney, Adolphe de (French ambassador in Vienna)
Bright, John