The big question is whether the Crimean calm of the past few years will survive.
The Battle of Alma was considered the first major battle of the Crimean War.
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So is there now some arbitrary cut-off point, the Crimean War (1853-6) perhaps?
The British income tax had been 10% during the Napoleonic Wars and 6.6% during the Crimean War.
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Many Crimean Russians hope that Russia's new president, Vladimir Putin, will restore Crimea or, better, all Ukraine to Russia.
"Grief, " a searing 1942 picture of a Crimean battlefield, shows an anguished peasant discovering the body of her husband.
Repeatedly, he has urged Ukraine to hand the Crimean peninsula back to Russia.
"Grief, " a searing 1942 picture of a muddy Crimean battlefield, shows an anguished peasant discovering the body of her husband.
Like the ill-fated British Light Brigade's charge against the Russians in the Crimean War, Pittsburgh's strategy was a suicide mission.
Like Likhodeyev, who is magically transported to the Crimean resort of Yalta, Mr Rybkin resurfaced abruptly on February 10th in Ukraine's capital, Kiev.
Four of the ships sank in the Kerch Strait, which connects the Black Sea and Azov Sea and separates Russia from Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula.
But visiting Russia's Crimean naval base at Sebastopol last week, Mr Putin was at pains to stress that he was touring a Ukrainian city.
Farther west, on the other side of the Crimean Peninsula, the storm caused a freighter carrying scrap metal to sink off the coast of Sevastopol.
During the second world war, the mix of nationalities was further increased when Volga Germans, Crimean Tatars, Chechens and others from the Caucasus were deported to Central Asia.
There is particular concern about the role of Russia in the region, such as its recent extension of its use of the Crimean peninsular for its Black Sea fleet.
In the late 19th Century, Russians fought the British, French and the Ottoman Turks from these Crimean shores, as a part of an extended conflict over the spoils of the Ottoman Empire.
The Victoria Cross was created in 29 January 1856 and is hand-made from bronze cannon captured from the Russians at the siege of Sevastopol in 1854-55 during the Crimean War.
In 1854, allied armies, including those of Britain and France, landed in the Crimea to oppose the Russians, who had sparked the Crimean War by invading Turkey in July 1853.
Frequented by Russian holidaymakers, the peninsula has had little influence from the West and is better known for its war history than for the long strips of pebble beach propping the rocky Crimean Mountains.
Within hours he was diagnosed with Crimean-Congo Haemorrhagic Fever, a virus nasty enough for him to be put onto a military transport aircraft for transfer to an isolation hospital in London.
Its main criticisms tolerance of underperforming staff, lack of training in specific skills, hostility to change are those that have dogged Whitehall since the mid-19th century, when bureaucratic failures during the Crimean War led to major reforms.
The great historical paradox of the Crimean war and of the longer-term Russo-Turkish conflict of which it was one episode is that Anglican England and Roman Catholic France were aligned with Islam's sultan-caliph against the tsars who saw themselves as the world's last truly Christian emperors.
This project will digitise a huge range of printed books, pamphlets and periodicals dated 1700 to 1870, the period that saw the French and Industrial Revolutions, The Battle of Trafalgar and the Crimean War, the invention of rail travel and of the telegraph, the beginning of UK income tax, and the end of slavery.
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The final pavilion, 'Reform and Inspire', focuses on the little known sequel to the Crimean years: the half-century during which Nightingale's reforming power was felt across the entire public health spectrum - not just nursing, but also hospital design, midwifery, workhouse reform, army health reform, together with the pioneering use of statistical data to record and analyse the nation's health.
The second pavilion, 'The Calling', reflecting Florence's underlying belief in her call to God's service, recreates the climax of Nightingale's life: her experiences during the Crimean War in the years 1854 to 1856, when she led a Government-sponsored party of nurses to the military hospitals at Scutari on the Asian shore of the Bosphorus, and then to the Crimea itself, and in so doing became a national heroine.
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