The Crimean War полностью

Russian army, units and regiments: 4th Corps 5th Division 10th Division 11th Division 12th Infantry Division 15th Reserve Infantry Division Borodinsky Regiment Cossack cavalry Ekaterinburg Regiment Kamchatka Regiment Kazan Regiment Kiev Hussars Kolyvansky Regiment Minsk Regiment Moscow Regiment Okhotsky Regiment Polish Lancers Selenginsky Regiment Tarutinsky Regiment Tomsky Regiment Ukrainsky Regiment Vladimirsky Regiment Yakutsky Regiment American volunteers ‘Greek-Slavonic Legion’

Russian Invalid (army magazine)

Russian navy: mobilized to seize Constantinople seizure of the Vixen at Sinope (1853) ships blown up to block harbour service in the bastions defence of Sevastopol pontoon bridge built sailors refuse to leave Sevastopol last of Black Sea Fleet sunk French help to modernize fleet Black sea fleet recommissioned (1872)

Russians, new settlers in the Crimea

Russkii mir (pan-Slav journal)

Russo-Turkish wars (1787 – 92) (1806 – 12) (1828 – 9) (1877 – 8) see also religious wars

Russophobia: in Britain Europe wide in France

Rustem Pasha (i/c Turkish troops Balaklava)

Ruthenian (Uniate) Catholics

Ryzhov, General (Russian cavalry)

agin Giray, Khan of Crimea

Saint-Arnaud, Jacques Leroy de, French C-in-C Army of the East reservations about Sevastopol plan pre-landing conference with Raglan ill with stomach cancer comment on British at Evpatoria compares Sevastopol to 1812 Moscow looting and dies of heart-attack

Saint-Cyr, École spéciale militaire

Salzenberg, Wilhelm, drawings of Hagia Sophia mosaics

Samarkand

Samuel Colt (U.S. arms manufacturer)

San Stefano Treaty (1878)

sanitation, cholera and

Sardinian army: Chernaia river battle Malakhov assault see also Piedmont-Sardinia

Savoy: Napoleon III and union with France

Scott, Capt (9th Foot)

scurvy: British army French troops at Kars

Scutari military hospital poor medical conditions Florence Nightingale takes charge escalating death rate inspected by government sanitary commission see also medical treatment

Seacole, Mary

Seebach, Baron von (Saxon Minister in Paris) intermediary with Russia

Selim III, Sultan, military reforms

Semashko, Joseph, Bishop, and the nuns of Minsk

Serbia: Austrians ready to invade (1854) Britain and closer ties with Bulgaria and Balkan Slavs national church (Orthodox) Omer Pasha’s defence of Organic Statute pact with Romanian leadership possible support for Russians (1853) Russia and Russian partition plans (1852) the ‘Russian Party’ Turkish garrisons removed war dead war with Turkey (1876) warned not to interfere in Balkan revolts warning from Britain

Serpent Island, occupied by Russia

Serzhputovsky, General, siege of Silistria

Sevastopol: British naval strategy prime target of allies siege of (1854 – 1855) fortifications inadequate (1854) ships blown up to block harbour liquor store breached water supply cut civilians defence of celebrates the victory at Balaklava conditions in the town naval bombardment Lourmel’s Brigade soldiers walk in allied assault plans postponed til spring 1855 allied siege strategy rethought (1855) allied bombardment (Easter 1855) allied blockade takes hold (1855) allied bombardment (August-September 1855) armistices to collect dead and wounded encirclement rejected by Raglan Fifth Bastion fortified bastions and lunettes Fourth Bastion fraternization in ceasefires intelligence from allied deserters evacuation considered evacuation blown up and destroyed (Sept. 1855) Bukhmeier’s pontoon bridge allied armies in possession peace declaration port and fort installations destroyed by allies evacuation from and disposal of war matériel national humiliation and pride national shrine state commemorations The Defence of Sevastopol (panorama) (Roubaud) see also Crimea; Malakhov; Mamelon; Quarry pits; Redan; trench warfare

Seymour, Sir George Hamilton (British ambassador in St Petersburg) on Menshikov and Tsar Nicholas

Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7th Earl

Shah Shuja, reinstatement of (1839)

Shamil, Imam: revolt in Chechnya infiltrated by Islamic fundamentalists Turkish military help western planned assault and Russian campaign against final defeat by Russian army

Shchegolov, Ensign Alexander, capture of HMS Tiger

Sheffield and Rotherham Independent (newspaper)

Sheik ül-Islam, re-consecration of Hagia Sophia mosque

shell shock

Shil’der, Gen Karl A., at Silistria (1854)

Shil’der, Nikolai, biography of Tsar Nicholas

Shuja Shah Durrani

Siberia: conquest of by Russia Pacific coast theatre of war

Silistria: allied reinforcements Arab Tabia redoubt Russian advance (1853) siege of (1854)

Simferopol the Napoleon III’s field plan Sevastopol wounded

Simpson, Gen Sir James: on French supply organization takes over as C-in-C Crimea

Sinope, battle of (1853): destruction of Turkish fleet response in France view of in Britain

Slade, Adolphus, RN (naval advisor to the Porte) comment on French soldiery

slave trade, after Tanzimat reforms