During the first Crimean War, The Economist magazine — the same one that's still going strong — wrote a scathing piece in 1854 on Russia and its leader, Czar Nicholas I. "That vast state is in ...

Crimean War. A conflict beginning ... Great Britain and France entered the war in 1854 primarily out of strategic interest in defending the Bosporus and Dardanelles Straits, ...

While photographing the Crimean War in 1854, Roger Fenton made this portrait of a British officer and found a creative solution to convey as much information as he could.

Ireland and the Crimean War: 30,000 soliders, 22 trophy guns & a banquet Updated / Friday, 26 May 2023 12:19 The Crimean canon next to Tralee courthouse, Co Kerry.

Carleton, a historian, explores the “revolution in war writing” that was pioneered by William Howard Russell, a trailblazing Irish reporter, and Russia’s greatest writer, Leo Tolstoy. Russell was ...

Years before the U.S. Civil War photographer Mathew Brady took his famous photos of the Antietam battlefield, the camera of Britain's Roger Fenton captured scenes at Battle of Alma in Crimea in 1854.

During the first Crimean War, The Economist magazine — the same one that's still going strong — wrote a scathing piece in 1854 on Russia and its leader, Czar Nicholas I. "That vast state is in ...

Russia had a more powerful army. It didn't think the West would intervene. The invasion was poorly planned. We're not talking about Russia's current war, but about Russia's Crimean War in the 1850s.