Feature essay

The charge of the light brigade and the Crimean War

by Alastair W. Massie

  • The making of a blunder
  • Apportioning the blame
  • Wider repercussions: a government falls
  • Innovations: nursing, bravery awards, and photography

References

See also

  • Sir William Howard Russell (1820–1907)
  • Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)
  • Richard Caton Woodville (1856–1927)
  • Cecil Blanche Woodham-Smith (1896–1977)
  • Cecil Antonio Richardson (1928–1991)
  • Sir George Brown (1790–1865)
  • Sir George Cathcart (1794–1854)
  • FitzRoy James Henry Somerset (1788–1855)
  • Arthur Wellesley (1769–1852)
  • George Charles Bingham (1800–1888)
  • James Thomas Brudenell (1797–1868)
  • Sir James Yorke Scarlett (1799–1871)
  • Richard Airey (1803–1881)
  • Lewis Edward Nolan (1818–1854)
  • Alexander William Kinglake (1809–1891)
  • William Simpson (1823–1899)
  • Sir Austen Henry Layard (1817–1894)
  • John Arthur Roebuck (1802–1879)
  • George Hamilton-Gordon (1784–1860)
  • Fox Maule (1801–1874)
  • Henry Pelham Fiennes Pelham-Clinton (1811–1864)
  • Sir James Simpson (1792–1868)
  • Sir William John Codrington (1804–1884)
  • Colin Campbell (1792–1863)
  • Victoria (1819–1901)
  • Henry Hardinge (1785–1856)
  • Prince George (1819–1904)
  • Thomas Chenery (1826–1884)
  • Florence Nightingale (1820–1910)
  • Lady Alicia Blackwood (1818–1913)
  • Elizabeth Davis (1789–1860)
  • Mary Stanley (1813–1879)
  • Frances Isabella Duberly (1829–1902)
  • Mary Jane Seacole (1805–1881)
  • Alexis Benoît Soyer (1810–1858)
  • Holders of the Victoria Cross in the Oxford DNB
  • Sir Henry Hugh Clifford (1826–1883)
  • Sir Mark Walker (1827–1902)
  • Roger Fenton (1819–1869)
  • James Robertson (1813/14–1888)
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