'Battle of the Alma', 1859. Artist: J Cantrill.

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'Battle of the Alma', 1859. The first battle of the Crimean War (1853-1856), took place south of the River Alma. An Anglo-French force under Jacques Leroy de Saint Arnaud and FitzRoy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan, defeated General Aleksandr Sergeyevich Menshikov's Russian army, which lost around 6,000 troops. After James Charles Armytage (1802 or c1820-April 1897). From The History of England Div VI by David Hume & Tobias Smollett. [Virtue & Co., London, 1859].

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