The Crimean War

action advance allied Alma already arrived artillery assault attack Balaclava battery battle began beginning begun Black Brigade British army called Captain carried Cathcart cavalry chance charge cholera close Colonel columns command cover Crimea cross Czar dead death Division effective enemy entire fact field fighting fire Florence Nightingale force forward four French front gave given Guards guns hand Heavy heights held hill horse hospital hundred infantry Inkerman knew lacked land later Light lives London look Lord Cardigan Lord Lucan Lord Raglan lost mass military move needed never nurses officers once Pélissier political position Prince ranks Redoubt Regiment rifle River Royal Russian Scutari Sebastopol sent ships shot sick side soldiers soon staff supply taken thousand Tolstoy took troops valley walls winter wounded young