Author: Anthony Dawson
Publisher: Frontline Books
ISBN: 1526775565
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Week after week, the guns of the British expeditionary force battered away at the defences of Sevastopol, eight miles away from Balaklava, the port through which all besiegers’ supplies arrived. As autumn turned to winter, rain and frost turned the track from Balaklava into a muddy quagmire and soon it became virtually impassable. Horses were dying daily in their endeavours to pull carts up the hills to the siege lines, and with few supplies reaching the front, the troops suffered terribly from malnutrition and frostbite. Unless a solution could be found, the entire operation was doomed to humiliating, disastrous failure. When news of the terrible plight of the troops reached the UK, a leading railway contractor and his partners undertook to build a railway at cost from Balaklava to the front line – and promised that they could construct it in just three weeks after they arrived in the Crimea. Though it took almost seven weeks to complete the railway, in that time a double track which rose 500 feet from the port and travelled for seven miles to the siege lines had been laid. With food, clothing and ammunition at last able to reach the front, the British along with their French allies were able to capture Sevastopol and bring the Crimean War to an end. In this comprehensive and detailed account of the construction and use of what became known as the Grand Crimean Central Railway the author describes the astonishing achievement in building the first railway ever employed in warfare, and the first to be used for casualty evacuation, thousands of miles from the UK.
The Railway that Helped Win the Crimean War
Author: Anthony Dawson
Publisher: Frontline Books
ISBN: 1526775565
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Week after week, the guns of the British expeditionary force battered away at the defences of Sevastopol, eight miles away from Balaklava, the port through which all besiegers’ supplies arrived. As autumn turned to winter, rain and frost turned the track from Balaklava into a muddy quagmire and soon it became virtually impassable. Horses were dying daily in their endeavours to pull carts up the hills to the siege lines, and with few supplies reaching the front, the troops suffered terribly from malnutrition and frostbite. Unless a solution could be found, the entire operation was doomed to humiliating, disastrous failure. When news of the terrible plight of the troops reached the UK, a leading railway contractor and his partners undertook to build a railway at cost from Balaklava to the front line – and promised that they could construct it in just three weeks after they arrived in the Crimea. Though it took almost seven weeks to complete the railway, in that time a double track which rose 500 feet from the port and travelled for seven miles to the siege lines had been laid. With food, clothing and ammunition at last able to reach the front, the British along with their French allies were able to capture Sevastopol and bring the Crimean War to an end. In this comprehensive and detailed account of the construction and use of what became known as the Grand Crimean Central Railway the author describes the astonishing achievement in building the first railway ever employed in warfare, and the first to be used for casualty evacuation, thousands of miles from the UK.
Publisher: Frontline Books
ISBN: 1526775565
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Week after week, the guns of the British expeditionary force battered away at the defences of Sevastopol, eight miles away from Balaklava, the port through which all besiegers’ supplies arrived. As autumn turned to winter, rain and frost turned the track from Balaklava into a muddy quagmire and soon it became virtually impassable. Horses were dying daily in their endeavours to pull carts up the hills to the siege lines, and with few supplies reaching the front, the troops suffered terribly from malnutrition and frostbite. Unless a solution could be found, the entire operation was doomed to humiliating, disastrous failure. When news of the terrible plight of the troops reached the UK, a leading railway contractor and his partners undertook to build a railway at cost from Balaklava to the front line – and promised that they could construct it in just three weeks after they arrived in the Crimea. Though it took almost seven weeks to complete the railway, in that time a double track which rose 500 feet from the port and travelled for seven miles to the siege lines had been laid. With food, clothing and ammunition at last able to reach the front, the British along with their French allies were able to capture Sevastopol and bring the Crimean War to an end. In this comprehensive and detailed account of the construction and use of what became known as the Grand Crimean Central Railway the author describes the astonishing achievement in building the first railway ever employed in warfare, and the first to be used for casualty evacuation, thousands of miles from the UK.
The Grand Crimean Central Railway
Author: Anthony Dawson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781445671048
Category : Crimean War, 1853-1856
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Anthony Dawson explores the history of the world's first wartime railway - The Grand Crimean Central Railway.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781445671048
Category : Crimean War, 1853-1856
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Anthony Dawson explores the history of the world's first wartime railway - The Grand Crimean Central Railway.
Engines of War
Author: Christian Wolmar
Publisher: PublicAffairs
ISBN: 1586489720
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
The birth of the railway in the early 1830's revolutionized the way the world waged war. From armored engines with swiveling guns, to the practice of track sabotage, to the construction of tracks that crossed frozen Siberian lakes, the "iron road" facilitated conflict on a scale that was previously unimaginable. It not only made armies more mobile, but widened fighting fronts and increased the power and scale of available weaponry; a deadly combination. In Engines of War, Christian Wolmar examines all the engagements in which the railway played a part: the Crimean War; the American Civil War; both world wars; the Korean War; and the Cold War, with its mysterious missile trains; and illustrates how the railway became a deadly weapon exploited by governments across the world.
Publisher: PublicAffairs
ISBN: 1586489720
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
The birth of the railway in the early 1830's revolutionized the way the world waged war. From armored engines with swiveling guns, to the practice of track sabotage, to the construction of tracks that crossed frozen Siberian lakes, the "iron road" facilitated conflict on a scale that was previously unimaginable. It not only made armies more mobile, but widened fighting fronts and increased the power and scale of available weaponry; a deadly combination. In Engines of War, Christian Wolmar examines all the engagements in which the railway played a part: the Crimean War; the American Civil War; both world wars; the Korean War; and the Cold War, with its mysterious missile trains; and illustrates how the railway became a deadly weapon exploited by governments across the world.
The Crimean War
Author: Philip Warner
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Crimean War, 1853-1856
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Crimean War, 1853-1856
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Origin of the Crimean War
Author: Alexander William Kinglake
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Crimean War, 1853-1856
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Crimean War, 1853-1856
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
An American Transport in the Crimean War
Author: John Codman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Crimean War, 1853-1856
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Crimean War, 1853-1856
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Crimean War
Author: John Sweetman
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135976503
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135976503
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Crimea: The Great Crimean War, 1854-1856
Author: Trevor Royle
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1403964165
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
The war was a watershed in world history and pointed the way to what mass warfare would be like in the twentieth century.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1403964165
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
The war was a watershed in world history and pointed the way to what mass warfare would be like in the twentieth century.
The Crimea in 1854, and 1894 (1895)
Author: Evelyn Wood
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781104487133
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781104487133
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
The National Army Museum Book of the Crimean War
Author: Alastair Massie
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 9780330491747
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
This book is based on unpublished material, from single letters by barely literate private soldiers to the voluminous correspondence of commander-in-chief Lord Raglan. The whole experience of fighting in the Crimea is captured here: the thrill of combat, the men's impressions of their allies--French, Turkish and Sardinian--the horrors of their first winter in the Crimea, the scandalously inadequate medical arrangements and the impact made by Florence Nightingale. Written by a leading authority in this field, this is a colorful, fresh account of one of nineteenth century's most famous conflicts.
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 9780330491747
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
This book is based on unpublished material, from single letters by barely literate private soldiers to the voluminous correspondence of commander-in-chief Lord Raglan. The whole experience of fighting in the Crimea is captured here: the thrill of combat, the men's impressions of their allies--French, Turkish and Sardinian--the horrors of their first winter in the Crimea, the scandalously inadequate medical arrangements and the impact made by Florence Nightingale. Written by a leading authority in this field, this is a colorful, fresh account of one of nineteenth century's most famous conflicts.