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| 1854 |
| | | An inconclusive battle at Balaklava includes the Charge of the Light Brigade, with British cavalry recklessly led towards Russian guns | |
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| 1854 |
| | | An inconclusive engagement at Inkerman means that the allies in the Crimea have to dig in for the winter besieging Sebastopol | |
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| 1855 |
| | | Jamaican-born nurse Mary Seacole sets up her own 'British Hotel' in the Crimea to provide food and nursing for soldiers in need | |
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| 1855 |
| | | Roger Fenton travels out from England to the Crimea – the world's first war photographer | |
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| 1855 |
| | | English artist William Simpson sends sketches from the Crimea which achieve rapid circulation in Britain as tinted lithographs | |
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| 1855 |
| | | After a siege of nearly a year the Russians abandon Sebastopol, but the Turkish alliance is too exhausted to pursue the conflict | |
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| 1856 |
| | | The treaty of Paris ends the Crimean War, limiting Russia's special powers in relation to Turkey | |
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| 1856 |
| | | An incident aboard the Arrow, flying a British flag, gives the British the pretext to launch the Second Opium War | |
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| 1857 |
| | | Animal fat on a new issue of cartridges sparks off the Indian Mutiny, also know as the First War of Indian Independence | |
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| 1857 |
| | | After being besieged for five months in Lucknow, the remnants of the British garrison finally escape | |
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