The Experience of Warfare in Britain: Crimea, Boer & The 1WW History, Option C, Topic C1 2.5 / 5 based on 7 ratings ? HistoryModern Britain - 19th century onwardsAS Created by: CassieMcPCreated on: 16-01-10 18:20 The Crimean War and Mid Victorian Britain · Unchanged Army 1 of 10 Politics and institutions and the Army of 1854: pu · Whigs and Tories’ · No training · No control over staffing decisions · Black-market · Purchase needed replacing 2 of 10 Fighting the Crimean War · French, British and Turkey Vs Russia · Not equipped for a long campaign · Lacked supplies. 3 of 10 Reporting the Crimean War: The first war correspon · William Russel · ‘Vulgar low Irish man’ · ‘The times' · Contributed to the works of Florence Nightingale 4 of 10 The use of photographs and their impact · Still photos · Believed photos more than words · Focused on only good parts of the war 5 of 10 The commissariat and its failings. · Too many different departments. · Disorganised and inefficient · Terrible miss management everything went wrong · Incompetent · Transport had to be hired locally, to transport supplies. · No forage available for pack animals, Ambulance had to be left at Varna. · Sent no building materials, or food · Right boots on boat, left boat on the other · Ended 1854à replaced by land transport corpe 6 of 10 Medical care: the horrors of Scutari · Crammed conditions · Hard floor only · ‘Maggots by the handful’ · 6 weeks before wounds were looked at, if lucky. · Lack of nurses, Utensils, Washing up equipment · Comel was the only drug not in short supply · Covered in Vermin. · Only built for a 1000 7 of 10 The work of Florence Nightingale, Mary Stanley, Se · S.t Johns house institution for training nurses · Established a little cleanliness. · MS brought in more nurses · MS was more important, been to the Crimea were as FN had refused. 8 of 10 The reform of the commissariat and medical care fo · Increased efficient as only one office was needed to get troops equipment · Allowed soldiers to stay with friends and encouraged people to join because they would be able to stay at home. · Stopped people thinking the service was too long and not signing up · Rather than the richest leading it was the best officer. · The commander in chief had to answer to the Secretary for War and, trough him, to parliament. · Good qualities recruits ensuring the private soldiers life was better. · More people signed up due to shorter time in activities duty. · Experienced troops for rationalised emergency. 9 of 10 Did the Paris peace talks end the disputes that st Black sea was natural territory. · Russia retained Sebastopol, Balaclava and all areas occupied by the Allies. · (Positive for England) The River Danube was to be a waterway open to all shipping. · Turkish sovereignty over the Danubian principalities was guaranteed à grouped into a new state Romania · Sulan declared he would improve Christian life within the Ottoman empire 10 of 10
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