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Alma, Battle of the

(Sept. 20, 1854), victory by the British and the French in the Crimean War that left the Russian naval base of Sevastopol vulnerable and endangered the entire Russian position in the war.

Menshikov, Aleksandr Sergeyevich, Knyaz

(Prince) (b. Aug. 26 [Aug. 15, old style], 1787--d. May 1 [April 19, O.S.], 1867, St. Petersburg, Russia), commander of the Russian forces in the first half of the Crimean War.

Bourbaki, Charles-Denis-Sauter

(b. April 22, 1816, Pau, France--d. Sept. 23, 1897, Bayonne), French general who served with distinction in Algeria, the Crimean War, and the Franco-German War.

Crimean War

(October 1853-February 1856), war fought mainly on the Crimean Peninsula between the Russians and the British, French, and Ottoman Turkish, with support, from January 1855, by the army of Sardinia-Piedmont. The war arose from the conflict of great powers in the Middle East and was more directly caused by Russian demands to exercise protection over the Orthodox subjects of the Ottoman sultan. Another major factor was the dispute between Russia and France over the privileges of the Russian Orthodox and Roman Catholic churches in the holy places in Palestine. (see also Index: Ottoman Empire)

Saint-Arnaud, Armand-Jacques Leroy de

(b. Aug. 20, 1798, Paris, France--d. Sept. 29, 1854, at sea en route to France), army officer and later marshal of France who was minister of war under Napoleon III and commander in chief of the French forces in the Crimean War.

Shelby

city, seat (1842) of Cleveland county, in the Piedmont region of southwestern North Carolina, U.S. It is located 41 miles (66 km) west of Charlotte. Settled after 1760, the city was chartered in 1843 and named for Colonel Isaac Shelby, American Revolutionary War hero of the Battle of Kings Mountain (10 miles [16 km] southeast), site of a national military park. The arrival of the railways in the 1870s stimulated Shelby's development. Textiles became its chief industry, later supplemented by diverse manufacturing. Cleveland Community College was opened there in 1965. Inc. city, 1929. Pop. (1990) 14,669; (1994 est.) 15,788.

Raglan (of Raglan), FitzRoy James Henry Somerset, 1st Baron

(b. Sept. 30, 1788, Badminton, Gloucestershire, Eng.--d. June 28, 1855, near Sevastopol, Crimea, Russia), field marshal, first British commander in chief during the Crimean War. His leadership in the war has usually been criticized.

Balaklava, Battle of

Balaklava also spelled BALACLAVA (Oct. 25 [Oct. 13, Old Style], 1854), indecisive military engagement of the Crimean War, best known as the inspiration of the English poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson's "Charge of the Light Brigade." In this battle, the Russians failed to capture Balaklava, the Black Sea supply port of the British, French, and Turkish forces in the southern Crimea; but the British lost control of their best supply road connecting Balaklava with the heights above Sevastopol, the major Russian naval centre that was under siege. (see also Index: Sevastopol, Siege of)

Lucan, George Charles Bingham, 3rd Earl of

(b. April 16, 1800, London, Eng.--d. Nov. 10, 1888, London), British soldier who commanded the cavalry division, including the famous Light Brigade, at the Battle of Balaklava (q.v.) in the Crimean War. (see also Index: Balaklava, Battle of)

Gorchakov, Mikhail Dmitriyevich, Prince

(Knyaz) (b. 1793--d. May 18 [May 30, New Style], 1861, Warsaw, Pol., Russian Empire [now in Poland]), Russian military officer and statesman who played a major role in the Crimean War (1853-56) and served as the Russian viceroy in Poland (1856-61).

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