26 September 1854 On 26 September 1854, the British army ransacked the small Crimean port of Balaclava. Professor Saul David comments that when they arrived they found ‘the port was largely deserted.: most of its 1500 inhabitants had already fled… leaving their homes to be ruthlessly pillaged.’1 At the time, the British weekly, the Examiner, explained it…
24 May 1855 The 24 May 1855 was a day the people of Kerch would never forget. The local population had begged general Sir George Brown, who was in command of a force of 15,000 British, French and Turkish soldiers which had captured the city, to protect them from the local Tatar population. Not only…
BRITISH TROOPS RANSACK THE CRIMEAN PORT OF BALAKLAVA [ 26 September 1854 ] On 26 September 1854, the British army ransacked the small Crimean port of Balaclava. Professor Saul David comments that when they arrived they found ‘the port was largely deserted.: most of its 1500 inhabitants had already fled… leaving their homes to be…
CHURCHILL ADVOCATES A NUCLEAR STRIKE AGAINST MOSCOW [ 8 August 1947 ] Today in 1946, over lunch at Chartwell, Winston Churchill enthusiastically answered a question from his physician Lord Moran regarding how a nuclear war might be waged against the Soviet Union. ‘We ought not to wait until Russia is ready,’ Churchill explained, adding ‘America…
