The battle of the Alma: first blood to the Allies in the Crimea
On 20 September 1854 the combined British and French armies confronted the Russians at the river Alma in the critical opening encounter of the Crimean War. This was the first major battle the British had fought on European soil since Waterloo almost 40 years before. In this compelling and meticulous...
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| Zusammenfassung: | On 20 September 1854 the combined British and French armies confronted the Russians at the river Alma in the critical opening encounter of the Crimean War. This was the first major battle the British had fought on European soil since Waterloo almost 40 years before. In this compelling and meticulously researched study, Ian Fletcher and Natalia Ishchenko reconstruct the battle in vivid detail, using many rare and unpublished eyewitness accounts from all sides - English, French and Russian. Their groundbreaking work promises to be the definitive history of this extraordinary clash of arms for many years to come. It also gives a fascinating insight into military thinking and organization in the 1850s, midway between the end of the Napoleonic era and the outbreak of the Great War |
| Beschreibung: | Includes index Bibliography: p. [241]-243 |
| Beschreibung: | X, 246 S. Ill., Kt. 24 cm |
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| adam_text | Contents
List of Illustrations
....................................................................................
vi
List of Maps
..............................................................................................
vii
Introduction
............................................................................................viii
Chapter
1
A Rupture with the Russians
....................................................1
Chapter
2
The Allies Go to War
..............................................................13
Chapter
3
Across the Black Sea
..............................................................31
Chapter
4
Summer in Sevastopol
............................................................43
Chapter
5
The Landings
........................................................................55
Chapter
6
The Russians
..........................................................................77
Chapter
7
Preparations for Battle
..........................................................89
Chapter
8
The French Move First
......................................................107
Chapter
9
The British Enter the Battle
................................................129
Chapter
10
Forward, the Guards!
..........................................................145
Chapter
11
The Drive to Victory
............................................................163
Chapter
12
End of the Battle
................................................................173
Chapter
13
Victory and Defeat
..............................................................190
Chapter
14
Aftermath
............................................................................203
Chapter
15
The Battlefield Today
..........................................................213
Appendices
............................................................................................218
Notes
........................................................................................................231
Bibliography
..............................................................................................241
Index
........................................................................................................244
List of Illustrations
Lord Raglan,
1788-1855,
commander-in-chief of the British Army in the
Crimea.
General
François Antoine
Certain Canrobert,
1809-1895.
Commanded the
French
1st
Division at the
Akna.
Marshal
Leroy de Saint-Arnaud,
1801-1854,
commander-in-chief of the
French Army.
Sir George Brown,
1790-1865,
commander of the British
2nd
Division.
Prince Alexander Sergeevich Menshikov,
1787-1869.
Commander-in-chief of
the Russian Army at the Alma.
The Duke of Cambridge,
1819-1904.
Commanded the British
1st
Division at
the Alma.
The United Service. Punch magazine s view of the new spirit of cooperation
between the old enemies.
Another cartoon from Punch, this time following the Allied victory at the Alma.
The Brigade of Guards attacking the Great Redoubt during the Battle of the
Alma.
The Battle of the Alma, after a print by Dupray.
The battlefield shortly after the end of the fighting. The Great Redoubt can be
seen on the right.
The defile at Almatamack through which Bosquet s troops passed to begin the
battle.
Another section of the drawing by
Hamłey,
showing the ground to the west of
the Sevastopol road.
The defile at Almatamack, from the viewpoint of Bosquet s troops as they
began moving up.
The battlefield of the Alma today. A view looking east from a position just
south-east of Almatamack.
The river Alma today, just to the east of Almatamack.
The river Alma today, looking east, at a spot where the
2nd
Division crossed.
A British infantryman s view of the Great Redoubt as seen from a position just
to the south of the river Alma.
The obelisk and battlefield memorial inside the Great Redoubt today.
The memorial to
th« Vladimirsky
Regiment, inside the Great Redoubt.
List of Maps
1.1
Theatre of operations in the Black Sea
................................................9
3.1
Theatre of operations in the Crimea, from the landing beaches at
Kalamita
Bay to Sevastopol
................................................................33
5.1
The battlefield of the Alma
................................................................74
7.1
Allied and Russian dispositions
....................................................92-93
7.2
The post road crossing the river Alma
................................................94
8.1
The Battle of the Alma: the opening phase
..................................108-09
9.1
The ground beneath the Great Redoubt
..........................................130
9.2
The storming of the Great Redoubt
................................................139
10.1
The Battle of the Alma: the second phase
..................................146-47
10.2
Second fight on the Kourgane Hill
..................................................152
11.1
Continuation of the second fight on the Kourgane Hill
....................170
12.1
Advance of the eight battalions against Canrobert, 1
........................177
12.2
Advance of the eight battalions against Canrobert, II
........................178
12.3
Advance of the eight battalions against Canrobert, III
......................179
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