Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Crimean War
- Content
- Russian Empire vs. Britain,
France and Ottoman
Empire
- Britain got involved in 1854
- Causes
- Religious
- Russians and Ottomans argued who
had control over churches
- Territory
- Ottoman Empire was weakening
- Russian Empire wanted to expand
- Britain and France prevent Russian Empire expanding
- Reporters
- William Russell
- Attacked army hierarchy
- Highlighted medical facilities and
poor living conditions
- 'The Times' created a charity
- Who he worked for
- Didn't witness all his descriptions
- Roger Fenton
- Instructed to tale no photos of the dead
- Many of his photos were staged as he couldn't take moving images
- Impact of WR+RF
- Public were concerned
- Created pressure for army reform
- Created a political crisis
- Events of the war
- Thin Red Line
- Russian soldiers advanced to British line.
British organised in 2 lines which
prevented the Russians to attack.
Remembered as the symbol for
determination and heroism
- Charge of the Light Brigade
- Lord Raglan issued a poorly explained order to Lord
Lucan to charge at the guns. The orders were vague
and Captain Nolan who delivered the message didn't
clarify the orcer properly to Lucan. Lucan pressed the
charge and sent the Light Brigade down the wring
valley
- 661 set off, 113 killed, 134 wounded, 45 prisoners
- Eyewitness account - Russell showed an army leadership error
- Tennyson's poem reinforced the
bravery and heroism of the soldiers
- Medical + nursing
- Medical
- Inadequate, only 4
assistance per 100 soldiers
- Medical supplies were
inefficient and lacked
washing facilities
- Disease
- Typhus, typhoid, dysentery
and cholera
- Florence Nightingale
- Collected information
and analysed mortality
rates
- = improvement for water supply,
organisation and food
- Acted independently
- Turned into iconic figure
- 20th century her
reputation was challenged
- Mary Seacole
- Created a British hotel
- Had some medical knowledge +
experience on battlefield
- Disorganisation
- Problems with supply + transport
- Medical supplies at Scutari were inadequate
- Shortage of wagons = couldn't transport wounded
- Inadequate housing + clothing
- Supplies that reached did reach Crimean wasn't distributed efficiently
- Leadership
- Officers were promoted through commission and not emrit
- Roles
- LORD CARDIGAN, initially
pereived as hero, but accused
of deserting the Light Brigade
too early
- LORD LUCAN, received most blame for COLB,
implementing an order he knew would fail
- LORD RAGLAN, responsible for many problems of leadership and organisation