The Crimean War
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Gallipoli, first landing of Allied force
Ganja khanate (Elizavetopol)
Garibaldi, Giuseppe: conquest of Naples Polish uprising (1861) and Redshirts
Gaskell, Elizabeth, North and South
Gaza, riots and attacks on Christians
Gazi Muhammed (son of Imam Shamil)
Georgia British gun-running campaign against Muslims debated at Paris Peace Congress (1856) Imam Shamil’s attacks Palmerston’s plans for proposed attack by Indian Army see also Caucasus
Germans, new settlers in the Crimea
Germany: Czartoryski’s plan for 1848 revolutions source of mercenary soldiers Three Emperors’ League (1873) united by Bismarck Verney’s plan
Ghazi Muhammad, Imam
Ghica, Alexander, Prince of Wallachia
Giffard, Captain Henry Wells RN
Gilbert, John Her Majesty the Queen Inspecting the Wounded Coldstream Guards …
Gilbert, Michel (French officer)
Ginka, Gen V. A., supply system reforms
Giray dynasty (Crimean Khanate)
Giubbenet, Khristian (professor of surgery)
Giurgevo, Turkish atrocity
Gladstone, William Ewart campaigns for intervention in the Balkans problems with defence of Muslims resignation (1855)
Gleichen, Admiral Victor, Count Gleichen
Golden Horde
Golev, General (Russian infantry), in the Redan
Gorchakov, Prince Alexander becomes Foreign Minister Black Sea clauses of Paris Treaty annulled objects to Piedmont based revolution realpolitik Serpent Island incident and other claims support for Serbs uncertain about Central Asia expansion warns Serbia not to interfere in Balkan revolts
Gorchakov, General Mikhail: Danubian front raises siege of Silistria response to refugee problem withdrawal from Bucharest soldiers song siege of Sevastopol at Inkerman fearful of Austrian invasion secret memorandum on National Resistance major offensive ordered by Tsar attacks French and Sardinians at Chernaia river evacuation of Sevastopol orders destruction of Sevastopol state commemoration of
Gordon, Lt (later Gen) Charles
Gosse, Sir Edmund, recalls impact of war news
Gowing, Sgt Timothy (7th Royal Fuslrs)
Gözleve
Grach, Colonel, Silistria forts
Graham, Sir James (First Lord of the Admiralty): naval strategy resignation
Grantham, Thomas Robinson, 2nd Baron Grantham (British Foreign Secretary)
Great Britain: attitudes towards soldiers (other ranks) pre and post War backs independent Greece bravery medals instituted for other ranks (1857) cabinet decisions over war aims Caucasus attack considered class divisions, possible end to conflicting views about invasion of the Crimea Congress of Berlin consulates in Belgrade, Braila and Iai creation of buffer states Cyprus Convention day of fasting and prayer (1854) decides to attack Crimea and Sevastopol Don Pacifico affair (1850) effect of Bulgarian atrocities English national identity in aftermath of war extension of franchise fears of Napoleonic revival in France fears regarding the ‘Russian threat’ Foreign Enlistment Bill (1855) Foreign Office experts warn against use of Muslim forces against Christians free press and public opinion government brought down by press and public criticism (1855) middle class ideals and professionalism negotiations with Austria not ready for peace after Sevastopol and Kars Paris Peace Congress (1856) peace initiative (1853) in Persia protest at Russian invasion of Turkestan public support for Hungarians reaction to fall of Sevastopol reaction to Franco-Austrian peace ultimatum reaction to Sinope news reactions to the death of the Tsar reasons for war relations with Ottoman Empire relations with the United States repudiates San Stefano Treaty response to Russo-Turkish war (1878) Romanian exiles Romanian revolution and (1848) Russian foreign policy and and Russian plans for Greece (1820s) Russian rivalry in Asia secret gun-running to the Caucasus seeks recognition for Victor Emmanuel sympathy for the Polish cause Triple Alliance (1856) Tsar Nicholas I visit to London (1844) ultimatum to Tsar Nicholas (1854) unhappy with Crimean Peace war memorials the ‘war party’ see also Anglo-French alliance; British Army; Crimean War; Palmerston; Royal Navy; Russophobia
The Great Exhibition (London 1851)
The Great Game
Greece: autonomy recognized by Ottomans Catherine the Great and military alliance with Serbia Russian partition plans (1852) war dead Western powers unwilling to help
Greek independence: Russia’s part in see also Nationalism
‘Greek-Slavonic Legion’: in the Russian army
Greeks: nationalism new settlers in the Crimea in Odessa in Thessaly and Epirus
Gregory XVI, Pope
Griffith, Lt (23rd (Royal Welsh) Fuslrs), storming the Redan
Grimm, Baron Friedrich, Catherine the Great and
Guizot, François
gunboat diplomacy: British French
Gurowski, Adam, Count, Russland und die Zivilisation
Hagia Sophia mosque (Constantinople) Byzantine mozaics discovered significance for Russia
Hall, Dr John (Principal medical officer), cautions against chloroform use
Harrowby, Dudley Ryder, 1st Earl
Hatt-i Hümayun decree (1856) drafted by Stratford Canning and Thouvenal violent opposition to
Hatt-i Sharif (1839)
Hauterive, Alexandre’
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, English Notebooks
Henri Quatre (French battleship), lost in hurricane (1854)
Herald (newspaper)
Herat (Afghanistan)
Herbé, Capt Jean-Jules: abandoned horses and mules assault on the Malakhov Bastion letter from hospital letters home wounded at Chernaia river
Herbert, Elizabeth, Baroness (wife of Sidney Herbert)
Herbert, General George, Earl of Pembroke
Herbert, Pvt Harry (5th Dragoons)
Herbert, Sidney (Secretary of State for War) bronze statue added to Guards’ Memorial
Herzegovina pan-Slav movement and promised to Austria-Hungary revolts by Christians
Herzen, Alexander, publishes ‘Tolstoy’s’ song
Heytesbury, William à Court, 1st Baron Heytesbury
Higginson, Capt (later Gen) George (Grenadier Gds), at Inkerman
Holy Alliance (Russia, Austria & Prussia)
Holy Land: an extension of Holy Russia French dispute with Russia pilgrims rivalry between Catholic and Orthodox Christians Tsar Nicholas I and
Holy Places: commencement of war and Paris Peace Congress (1856) and religious rights for Catholics religious rights for Orthodox Christians
Hornby, Lady Emily
Howlett, Robert, photographs of wounded soldiers
Hübner, Joseph Alexander, Baron
Hudson, Sir James
Hughes, Thomas: Tom Brown at Oxford Tom Brown’s Schooldays
Hungarian army, Polish officers
Hungarians, in Kars
Hungary, 1848 – 49 revolution
Hyde, Pvt Edward, at Inkerman
Hyder Pasha Hospital
Iai: Fratja meetings (1848) Treaty of (1792)
Ibrahim Pasha (son of Mehmet Ali), in Syria
Ignat’ev, Nikolai: Eastern Question solution encourages Serbs to expect Russian help pan-Slavism of San Stefano Treaty strategic memorandum on Central Asia and India Tsar’s envoy in Constantinople
Illustrated London News (journal)
l’Impartial (newspaper)
India, perceived Russian threat
India, Great Britain and Russia (pamphlet)
Indian Army see British Indian Army
Indian Mutiny (1857)
Induno, Gerolamo, Crimean War paintings
Ingush
Inkerman, reserve hospital
Inkerman, battle of (1854) arguments over whom to blame for defeat Sandbag Battery a ‘soldiers battle’ see also Mount Inkerman (Little Inkerman)
Inkerman Heights
Innokentii, Orthodox Archbishop: allied invasion a holy war Christianizing the Crimea
Ireland, lives lost
Islam: executions of Muslims who become Christians Islamic fundamentalists in Shamil’s movement Mehmet Ali’s Islamist aspirations opposition to Tanzimat reforms Western romantic ideas of see also Muslims
Istomin, Admiral Vladimir, commemoration
Italians, in Kars
Italy Czartoryski’s plan for little to commemorate Crimea Napoleon III’s plans Palmerston’s plans for Risorgimento unification union of Lombardy and Sardinia
janizaries
Japy, Frederic (3rd Zouave Regt), letter home
Jemaleddin (son of Imam Shamil), exchanged for Georgian princesses
Jerusalem: Easter 1846 riot fights between Greeks and Armenians Franciscan printing press (Austrian) religious rivalries Russian Ecclesiastical Mission
jihad: called for against Russians (1853) declared by Ottomans after Navarino (1827) General Yusuf’s incentive
jingoism, in Britain
Jomini, Antoine-Henri, Baron
Joseph II, Emperor of Austria
Journal des débats
Kacha, river, Russian dressing stations
Kadikoi (British base) traders and sutlers
Kalafat, Omer Pasha crosses the Danube
Kalamita Bay
Kamchatka Lunette (Sevastopol) see Mamelon
Kamiesh, French supply base
Kangaroo (troop transort): carries supplies to Shamil used for cholera victims
Kapodistrias, Ioannis
Kars: cession of demanded by Stalin relieving force under Omer Pasha relieving force under Selim Pasha Russian bargaining card at Paris (1856) Russian siege
Kaufman, Konstantin P., Governor-General of Turkestan
Kazan (Mongol khanate)
Kaznacheev, Nikolai Ivanovich, governor of Evpatoria
Kerch: allied raid aborted (April 1855) allied raid (May 1855)
Khanum, Fatima Khanum
Kharkov, Sevastopol wounded
Kherson (new city)
Khersoneses (ancient Greek city) Church of St Vladimir desecrated by French
Khiva khanate
Khlopotina, Elizaveta (nurse)
Khomyakov, Alexei (Slavophile poet)
Khrulev, Lt-Gen Stepan: Evpatoria attack fails (1855) suicidal attack suggestion
Khrushchev, Nikita, transfers Crimea to Ukraine
Kiev, defence of
Kievan Rus’
Kinglake, Alexander on declaring war embarcation for Crimea
Kingscote, Capt. (later Maj & Col Sir) Nigel (Scots Fuslr Gds & ADC): letters from Varna outraged by other officers letters
Kingsley, Charles: Two Years Ago Westward Ho!
Kingsley, Henry, Ravenshoe
Kiriakov, Lt-Gen V. I. (17th Division): at Alma at Inkerman
Kiselev, Gen Pavel (Minister of State Domains)
Klemm, Teofil (Russian soldier)
Kokand khanate
Kondratov, Ivan (Russian infantryman), dines on French and British food
Korda, Sir Alexander, Lady Hamilton (film)
Kornilov, Admiral Vladimir defence of Sevastopol death of commemoration
Koshka, Pyotr (seaman) raids allied trenches
Kossuth, Lajos
Kostaki Musurus (Turkish ambassador in London)
Kozhukov, Stepan (Russian artillery), At Balaklava
Krasinski, Valerian, Count
Krasovsky, Lt (ADC to Gorchakov), ‘time to start’ message
Kronstadt (Russian naval base)
Krüdener, Baroness Barbara Juliane von
Kuban, Slavic settlers
Kuchuk Kainarji, Treaty of (1774)
Kulali, military hospital (British)
La Valette, Charles, Marquis de, provocative behaviour towards Ottomans
Lacour, Edmond de (French ambassador the the Porte)
Lamartine, Alphonse de
Lambert, Gen Karl, Polish uprising (1863)
Lamennais, Félicité de
Latas, Mihailo see Omer Pasha
Lawson, George (army surgeon): at Alma letters home
Layard, Sir Henry
Lebanon, riots and attacks on Christians
Lemprière, Capt Audley (77th Foot)
Lenin, Vladimir Iliich
Leopold I, King of Belgium
Lieven, Princess Dorothea von
Lipkin, Capt Nikolai (Russian navy), letters from Sevastopol
Liprandi, Lt-Gen Pavel (12th Inf Div): at Balaklava at Inkerman Chernaia river battle
lithographs: images from the war Her Majesty the Queen Inspecting the Wounded Coldstream Guards … (Gilbert) see also photography
Loizillon, Henri (army engineer): inside the Mamelon worried about continuing war writes of dead friends writes of rumours
Lombardy, transferred to France and to Piedmont
Lombardy-Venetia, Italo-Austrian contention
London, Treaty of (1827) see also Convention of London
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, translation of verse by Jorge Manrique
Longworth, John: British government agent in the Caucasus rejects support for Shamil movement warns Britain to oppose Ottomans in Caucasus
Louis Napoleon, President of France (later Napoleon III): asserts French interests in Europe coup d’état (1851) courts Catholic opinion see also Napoleon III, Emperor of France
Louis-Napoleon, French Prince Imperial, birth of
Lucan, Lt-Gen George Bingham, 3rd earl failure to take opportunities at Balaklava Charge of the Light Brigade letters to Raglan tents unfit for habitation recalled
Lyde, Revd. Samuel, focus of Muslim riot
Lyons, Rear Admiral Sir Edward, Sevastopol invasion fleet
Macintosh, Maj-Gen Alexander, Journal of the Crimea
Mackenzie Heights, reserve hospital
Mackenzie’s Farm
MacMahon, Gen Patrice de, taking of the Malakhov Bastion
Magna Carta, influence on Ottoman parliament
Mahmud II, Sultan: appeals for help against Mehmet Ali of Egypt continues Selim’s [Westernizing] reforms declares jihad after Navarino
Mahmud Pasha, grand admiral Turkish navy
Mahmud Bek (governor of Nablus)
Malakhov Bastion (Sevastopol) assault (June 6, 1855) battle (June 18, 1855) taken by the French (Sept. 1855) remembered in France
Malmesbury, James Howard Harris, 3rd Earl, complains of La Valette
Mamelon (Sevastopol)
Manchester Times (newspaper)
Mandt Dr Martin Wilhelm von, physician to Tsar Nicholas I
Manrique, Jorge
Maria Alexandrovna, Grand Duchess
Maria Fedorovna, Empress [Dowager], Ypsilantis and
Mariupol see Kerch, allied raid (1855)
La Marmora, General Alfonso (Piedmont-Sardinia)
Maronite Christians, massacred by Druzes and Muslims (1860)
Marsh, Catherine, Memorials of Captain Hedley Vicars, Ninety-Seventh Regiment
Martineau, Harriet
Marx, Karl: the Anglo-French ‘anticlimax’ on Anglo-Turkish trade campaigns against Russia comment on the Russian army
Mayran, General, leads Malakhov assault
Mazzini, Giuseppe
McClellan, George B., US General
medals: Nakhimov Medal Victoria Cross
medical supplies, left at Varna by British
medical treatment: American help for Russians British hospitals conditions for British troops in the field French hospitals French standards drop nurses and nursing Russian hospitals shell shock/combat stress at Sinope triage see also anaesthetics; cholera, Scutari military hospital