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, Karclass="underline" 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
Mehmet Pasha (governor of Jerusalem)
Mehmet Ali Pasha, Grand Vizier becomes head of the ‘war party’ Commander-in-Chief Turkish army
Mehmet Ali, ruler of Egypt: challenge to both Ottomans and Russia Convention of Kütahya (1833) Islamist aspirations quells Greek uprising recognized as hereditary ruler of Egypt second insurrection against the Sultan (1839 – 40)
Mehmet Hüsrev, Grand Vizier (1839 – 41)
Melbourne, William Lamb, 2nd Viscount
Menshikov, Prince Alexander Sergeyevich, commander-in-chief Crimea mission to Constantinople (1853) counsels caution to the Tsar at Alma inadequate defences in Sevastopol leaves Sevastopol for Bakhchiserai at the Belbek river reinforcements from Danubian front opposed to new offensive after Balaklava receives reinforcements from Bessarabia at Inkerman explains Inkerman atrocities refuses truce to clear dead and wounded recommends abandonment of Sevastopol dismissed after Evpatoria battle (1855)
Mérimée, Prosper
Metternich, Klemens Wenzel, Prince von
Mexico, French invasion
Meyendorff, Baron (Russian ambassador in Vienna)
Mickiewicz, Adam Livre des pèlerins polonais
Mieczyslawska, Mother Makrena (Abbess)
Mihailo Obrenovi
Mikhail Nikolaevich, Grand Duke rebuke for Tolstoy
Mikhailova, Daria (Dasha Sevastopolskaia)
Mikhno, Nikolai
‘The Military Gazette’, Tolstoy’s magazine
Miliutin, Dmitry: army reforms mission to Serbia
millet system Balkan nationalist movements and Hatt-i Hümayun reforms
Milosevich, Nikolai, comment on aftermath of Chernaia
Minié rifles: at Alma artillery ineffective against at Balaklava with Circassian tribes at Inkerman loss of 10 million rounds in hurricane Polish ‘Zouaves’
Minsk, persecution of Catholic nuns
Mismer, Charles (French dragoon): on French rations living with shelling
missions: Anglican in Ottoman Empire Russian Ecclesiastical Mission in Jerusalem
Modena, monarch restored
Moldavia autonomy granted (1829) cereal exports to Britain debated at Paris Peace Congress (1856) Greek uprising (1821) hospodar ordered to reject Turkish rule preliminaries to Crimean War (1853) Russian occupation of (1829 – 34) Russian response to 1848 revolution see also Romania
Molènes, Paul de (Spahi officer): at Evpatoria observations at Varna
Monsell, Revd J.S.B., ‘What will they say in England …’
Montalembert, Charles
Montefiore, Moses, Balaklava railway