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The Grand Crimean Central Railway

Af: Anthony Dawson Engelsk Paperback

The Grand Crimean Central Railway

Af: Anthony Dawson Engelsk Paperback
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The Crimean War, fought by the alliance of Great Britain, France, and the tiny Italian Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia alongside Turkey against Tsarist Russia, was the first ‘modern’ war, not only for its vast scale (France mobilised a million men) but also the technologies involved, from iron-clad battleships to rifled artillery, the electric telegraph and steam.Best known for the blunder of the Charge of the Light Brigade, the fearful conditions in the trenches at the front, and the quiet heroism of Florence Nightingale, the Crimean War saw the railway go to war for the first time. The Grand Crimean Central Railway was the brainchild of two Victorian railway magnates, Samuel Morton Peto and Thomas Brassey; in order to alleviate the suffering at the front, they volunteered to build at cost a steam railway linking the Allied camps at Sevastopol to their supply base at Balaclava. In the face of much official opposition, the railway was built and operational in a matter of months, supplying hundreds of tons of food, clothing and materiel to the starving and freezing men in their trenches. Largely worked by civilian auxiliaries, the Grand Crimean Central Railway saw the railway transformed into a war-winning weapon, saving countless thousands of lives as it did so.
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The Crimean War, fought by the alliance of Great Britain, France, and the tiny Italian Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia alongside Turkey against Tsarist Russia, was the first ‘modern’ war, not only for its vast scale (France mobilised a million men) but also the technologies involved, from iron-clad battleships to rifled artillery, the electric telegraph and steam.Best known for the blunder of the Charge of the Light Brigade, the fearful conditions in the trenches at the front, and the quiet heroism of Florence Nightingale, the Crimean War saw the railway go to war for the first time. The Grand Crimean Central Railway was the brainchild of two Victorian railway magnates, Samuel Morton Peto and Thomas Brassey; in order to alleviate the suffering at the front, they volunteered to build at cost a steam railway linking the Allied camps at Sevastopol to their supply base at Balaclava. In the face of much official opposition, the railway was built and operational in a matter of months, supplying hundreds of tons of food, clothing and materiel to the starving and freezing men in their trenches. Largely worked by civilian auxiliaries, the Grand Crimean Central Railway saw the railway transformed into a war-winning weapon, saving countless thousands of lives as it did so.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 96
ISBN-13: 9781445671048
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 1445671042
Kategori: Specifikke krige og felttog
Udg. Dato: 15 okt 2019
Længde: 8mm
Bredde: 233mm
Højde: 167mm
Forlag: Amberley Publishing
Oplagsdato: 15 okt 2019
Forfatter(e): Anthony Dawson
Forfatter(e) Anthony Dawson

Kategori Specifikke krige og felttog

ISBN-13 9781445671048

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 96

Udgave

Længde 8mm

Bredde 233mm

Højde 167mm

Udg. Dato 15 okt 2019

Oplagsdato 15 okt 2019

Forlag Amberley Publishing

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