The Battle of the Alma (short for Battle of the Alma River) took place during the Crimean War between an allied expeditionary force (made up of French...
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The Battle of Alma or Battle of Boudouaou, which broke out on 19 April 1871, was a battle of the Mokrani Revolt by Algerian rebels against France, which...
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Look up Alma, alma, or álma in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Alma or ALMA may refer to: Alma (film), a 2009 Spanish short animated film Alma (Oswald...
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Crimean War (redirect from Battles of the Crimean War)
forces landed on the peninsula in September 1854 and marched their way to a point south of Sevastopol after they had won the Battle of the Alma on 20 September...
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victory in September at the Battle of the Alma, where the Russian General Menshikov had positioned his army in an attempt to stop the Allies progressing south...
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along its course. During the Crimean War of 1853–1856, in the Battle of the Alma near the lower reaches of the Alma river, the allied British, French,...
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in the Battle of the Alma, while another attributes it to Stephen O. Alma, first manager of the Newbold Lumber Company of Shongo. The Town of Alma is...
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The Battle of Sayyd Alma Kalay that took place near the Arghandab River in Afghanistan during the United States invasion of Afghanistan. The Taliban were...
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named after the Battle of the Alma. Alma is located on the southeast coast of Lac Saint-Jean where it flows into the Saguenay River, in the Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean...
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Palais de l'Alma (category Buildings and structures in the 7th arrondissement of Paris)
just east of the Musée du Quai Branly, almost in front of the Pont de l'Alma. The name of the palace comes from the Battle of the Alma (1854). The palace...
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Alma Mahler-Werfel (born Alma Margaretha Maria Schindler; 31 August 1879 – 11 December 1964) was an Austrian composer, author, editor, and socialite....
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and under the latter name was laid out in 1854. The present name, adopted in 1855, commemorates the Battle of the Alma in the Crimean War. The village post...
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FitzRoy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan (category People of the Battle of Waterloo)
besiege the Russian port of Sevastopol. After an early success at the Battle of the Alma, a failure to deliver orders with sufficient clarity caused the fateful...
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antiquity, for several goddesses). It gained popularity after the Battle of Alma in the 19th century and appeared as a fashionable name for girls and...
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Horace Vernet (category Members of the Order of the Holy Sepulchre)
sons, 1846 The Angel of Death, 1851 The Battle of the Alma, 1856 The Taking of the Malakoff Redoubt, 1858 A Wounded Zouave, 1858 Portrait of Marshal MacMahon...
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regarding the participation of Egyptian soldiers in that battle: “In the Alma incident, 7,000 Egyptian soldiers were marching on the shore of the salt sea...
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Pont de l'Alma (redirect from Alma bridge)
commemorate the Battle of Alma during the Crimean War, in which the Ottoman-Franco-British alliance achieved victory over the Russian army in 1854. The bridge...
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Sevastopol (redirect from City of Sevastopol)
landed on the peninsula in September 1854 and marched to a point south of Sevastopol after winning the Battle of the Alma on 20 September. The Russians...
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India William Reynolds (VC) – 1854; Battle of the Alma, Crimea James Cleland Richardson – 1916; Battle of the Ancre Heights, France John Ripley – 1915;...
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Grande. In the 1968 film The Charge of the Light Brigade a detachment of British soldiers whistle the tune just before the Battle of the Alma; a fife and...
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the Earl of Cardigan, at the Battle of Alma in September 1854. The regiment was in the second line of cavalry on the right flank during the Charge of...
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triumphal march to Sevastopol, the capital of the Crimea, with 50,000 men. Major battles along the way were Alma (September 1854), Balaklava (October 1854)...
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11th Hussars (redirect from 11th Regiment of Light Dragoons)
now a Major General and fought at the Battle of Alma in September 1854. It was also involved in the Charge of the Light Brigade in October 1854; due...
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Bakhchysarai (redirect from History of Bakhchysarai)
treated. The Battle of the Alma, one of the earliest battles of the war, took place not far from the city in 1854. But although the city was close to the front...
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Balaclava, Victoria (category Suburbs of the City of Port Phillip)
(Sebastopol Street), the Battle of the Alma River (Alma Road), the Battle of the Great Redan (Redan Street) and the Battle of Malakoff (Malakoff Street)...
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for the cadastral Hundred of Alma in which they lie, which was in turn named after the Battle of the Alma, the site of an allied victory in the Crimean...
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7th Light Mechanised Brigade Combat Team (category Infantry brigades of the British Army)
played no part in the Battle of Waterloo. The 7th Brigade formed part of the 4th Division in the Crimean War. At the Battle of the Alma it was commanded...
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Peninsula, the location of the Battle of the Alma, the first Allied victory in the Crimean War. The hundred is bounded on the north by the Wakefield River...
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17th Lancers (redirect from 17th (The Duke of Cambridge's Own) Lancers)
of the light brigade under the command of Major General the Earl of Cardigan, at the Battle of Alma in September 1854. The regiment, commanded by Captain...
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The Battle of the Little Bighorn, known to the Lakota and other Plains Indians as the Battle of the Greasy Grass, and commonly referred to as Custer's...
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