Although this war had fronts in the Baltic and Pacific, British forces there did not receive the medal awarded to forces in the namesake region, which had four clasps for the major battles, including Alma and Inkerman. It inc
Although this war had fronts in the Baltic and Pacific, British forces there did not receive the medal awarded to forces in the namesake region, which had four clasps for the major battles, including Alma and Inkerman. It included Ottoman defeats at Kars and Sinope and began partly because the Russians had invaded the Ottoman provinces of Moldavia and Wallachia. FTP, identify this war whose battle of Balaklava included the "thin red line" and the Charge of the Light Brigade, and took place on a namesake Black Sea peninsula.          |
Although this war had fronts in the Baltic and Pacific, British forces there did not receive the medal awarded to forces in the namesake region, which had four clasps for the major battles, including Alma and Inkerman.
{Crimean} War