Balaklava Railway
Balkan League
Balkan War (1853 – 4)
Balkans: continuing conflict between Christians and Muslims Czartoryski’s plan hoped for Slav/Christian uprisings Nationalism pan-Slavism retreat of Austria Russia and Russian partition plans (1852) seeds of future wars status quo guaranteed by Three Emperors’ League (1873) theatre of war see also European Turkey
Balta Liman, Act of (1849)
Baltic campaign (1854)
Baltic campaign (1855)
Baltic provinces, of Russia, Palmerston’s plans for
Bariatinsky, Prince Alexander I (viceroy of the Caucasus) fears British presence on the Caspian Sea
Bariatinsky, Prince Vladimir I (Flag Lt to Adm Kornilov)
Barrett, Jerry, Queen Victoria’s First Visit to Her Wounded Soldiers
Bashi Bazouks atrocities cholera and retreat to Varna in French service at Giurgevo
Bazancourt, César de
Beaumont, Thomas Wentworth
Beeton, Samuel, Our Soldiers and the Victoria Cross
Belarus, Ruthenian (Uniate) Catholics
Belgium, Russia and
Belgrade, Turkish bombardment
Bell, Col George (1st (Royal) Regt): complaint about uniforms letter to The Times
Bell, George and James Bell (shipping company)
Bell, John (sculptor), Guards’ Memorial (London)
Bellew, Walter (assistant surgeon)
Bem, General Jozef
Berlin, Congress (1878)
Bessarabia boundary debated at Paris Peace Congress (1856) boundary dispute with Moldavia and Franco-Austrian peace terms (1855) mobilization of Russian troops (1852) Palmerston’s plans for refugee problem (1820 – 21) riots and attacks on Christians
Bezborodko, Count Alexander
Bibescu, Prince Gheorghe of Romania
Bineau, Jean (French Finance Minister), argues against war
Bismarck, Otto von
Black Sea: declared neutral by Paris Peace Congress (1856) no firm pledge from France on penal clauses related Paris Congress clauses annulled (1871) Russian fleet recommissioned
Black Sea region: buffer zone Christian-Muslim relations crucial for Russian security and trade demilitarization of London Convention (1841) and religious and ethnic transmigration
Blackwood’s Magazine, British commerce and
Blakesley, Revd Joseph, letters to The Times
Bloomfield, Pvt (Derbys Regt): recollections of Alma recollections of Inkerman
Bludova, Antonina, Countess
Blunt, John (Turkish language interpreter)
Bond, Sgt (11th Hussars)
Bondurand, Baron, military intendant to Marshal Castellane
Borgo, Pozzo di
Borodino, battle of (1812)
Bosnia: pan-Slav movement and promised to Austria-Hungary revolts by Christians
Bosquet, General Pierre François: at Balaklava at Inkerman orders attack on the Mamelon removed from command before Malakhov second Malakhov battle
Botanov, Mikhail, in Sevastopol
Bourqueney, Adolphe de (French ambassador in Vienna)
Bright, John
British Army: Anglo-Austrian force in Palestine (1840) Cardwell reforms catering (1855) chaplains commissariat bureaucracy Crimean veterans receive the Victoria Cross dependent on recruiting mercenaries drunkenness entertainments the Guards’ Memorial (London) officer corps opinion of the French opinion of Turkish soldiers other ranks letters home recruits soldiers wives in invasion fleet ‘Tommy Atkins’ uniforms
British Army, Crimean timeline: unpreparedness for war at Varna cholera poor intelligence about Russian numbers sails for the Crimea officers avoid winter in Crimea officers better sheltered than men (winter 1854 – 55) officers and men question the war complaints of bad conditions scurvy march to Alma Light Brigade skirmish near Alma at Alma siege of Sevastopol at Balaklava Charge of Heavy Brigade Charge of Light Brigade at Inkerman lack of winter clothing or shelter cost of victory at Inkerman atrocities alleged in Kerch decline in morale, factors desertion rates winter (1854 – 55) desertions before the Redan assault Paxton’s huts Russian night raids and fraternization with Russian troops bombardment of Sevastopol assault on Vorontsov Ravine rifle pits capture of the Quarry Pits first attack on the Redan second attack on the Redan looting in Sevastopol Balaklava hand over (July 1856) return to Britain war graves war memorials see also Great Britain
British Army, units and regiments: 1st Division 2nd Division 3rd Division 4th Division Heavy Brigade 4th Dragoons 4th Light Dragoons (Queen’s Own) 5th Dragoons 6th Inniskilling Dragoons 8th Hussars 11th Hussars 13th Light Dragoons 15th Kings Hussars 17th Lancers Scots Greys Guards Brigade Grenadier Guards Coldstream Guards Scots Fusilier Guards 93rd Highland Brigade Light Division 1st Royal Regiment 9th Foot 14th Foot 23rd (Royal Welsh) Fuslrs 30th Foot 77th Foot Derbyshire Regiment
British and Foreign Review (journal)
‘British Hotel’ (Kadikoi)
British Indian Army, Tsar Alexander’s fears
Brotherhood of Sts Cyril and Methodius
Brown, General Sir George (Light Division) assault on the Redan Kerch raids
Bruat, Admiral Armand Joseph, abortive raid on Kerch
Brunov, Baron (Russian ambassador in London)
Bucharest: chaos and desertions in retreat (1854) provisional government declared (1848) Russian military headquarters (1853) Treaty of (1812)
Bukhara khanate
Bukhmeier, General, Sevastopol evacuation pontoon bridge
Bulganak, river
Bulgaria: Bashi Bazouk atrocities Circassians closer ties with Serbs and other Balkan Slavs Congress of Berlin resolutions Crimean Tatars lack of volunteers for Russian army massacre of Christians in Rumelia massacres of Muslims national church (Orthodox) possible support for Russians revolts by Christians Russian partition plans (1852) support from Russians against Turkey war dead
Bulgarians, new settlers in the Crimea
Bulwer, Henry
Buol, Karl von, Count (Austrian Foreign Minister) offers peace terms to Russians too soft on Russia (Clarendon) meets with de Morny and Gorchakov (1855)
Burgoyne, General Sir John RE council of war with allied leaders (1855) faulty judgements on Sevastopol siege at Inkerman plan to cut off supply routes to Sevastopol
Butler, Elizabeth (née Thompson), Calling the Roll after an Engagement, Crimea
Butler, Capt James (Ceylon Rifles), at Silistria
Buzzard, Thomas (doctor with Turkish army)
Cabrol, Jean (French army doctor)
Calthorpe, Somerset, ADC to Raglan fraternization incident witnesses Turkish rout
Cambridge, Prince George, Duke of, Lt-Gen at Alma at Inkerman recuperating from Inkerman resignation
Cameron, Capt William (Grenadier Gds), letters home
Campbell, Lady Charlotte, on a young Tsar Nicholas
Campbell, Lt-Gen Sir Colin (93rd Highland Bde)
Campbell, George John, Duke of Argyll
Campineanu, Ion
Canada, territorial claims by the United States
Canning, George
Canning, Stratford, 1st Viscount Stratford de Redcliffe agrees support for the Sultan appointment to St Petersburg refused by Tsar British fleet in the Dardanelles calls for break up of Russian Empire calls for decisive military action Circassian independence and comment on Poland at Paris (1856) on Constantinople riots (1853) conversation with Napoleon III Czartoryski and Hatt-i Hümayun decree invites hostility of Turks little influence on Turkish modifications to Vienna Note returns to Constantinople (1853) with the Sultan at a costume ball supports Palmerston (1853) sympathetic to expanding the war urges liberal reform in Moldavia and Wallachia urges Turks to protect Christians urges Turks to resist Russian demands urges Turks to toughen their stance Urquhart and and the Vienna Note warns of revolt against Westernizing policies