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The Latest Breaking News from Crimean War

“War is senseless, it’s stupid, and in the end you could end up dead… but in some ways it is glorious”: From the Crimean War to the Stranger Things finale, the story of Iron Maiden’s The Trooper

It didn’t live up to prior singles’ chart success, it was banned when it came out, and it’s got the band booed onstage. But, The Trooper is a song that Iron Maiden have never left behind.

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The 'dreamlike' life in some of Nottingham's most historic homes built for Crimean War veterans

The Dorothy Boot Homes off Main Road in Wilford were built in 1908 for veterans of the Crimean War and Indian Mutiny and paid for by Nottingham magnate Jesse Boot

Nottingham Post

Russia-Ukraine: five lessons from the 19th-century Crimean war

A century and a half ago, Russia lost a war it might have expected to win. The consequences reached far and wide

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How Russia's current war in Ukraine echoes its Crimean War of the 1850s

Russia had a more powerful army. It didn't think the West would intervene. The invasion was poorly planned. We're not talking about Russia's current war, but about Russia's Crimean War in the 1850s.

WEKU

Ukraine War Sparks Debate over Finland's 'Achilles Heel'

Sprayed between Sweden and Finland, the autonomous Aland Islands are a picturesque archipelago once part of Russia and demilitarized since 1856. But the region's unique status is the object of intense debate since Russia's invasion of Ukraine rattled neighboring Finland into applying for NATO membership in May. Under international treaties…

Asharq Al-Awsat

How a war with Russia led Florence Nightingale to revolutionise nursing

During the Crimean War – not far from where the war in Ukraine is now taking place – a young English nurse changed nursing as we know it, writes Jess McHugh

The Independent UK

Ukraine: Putin has gone ‘full tonto’ with invasion, says Ben Wallace

In unguarded comments, defence secretary also says Scots Guards ‘kicked the backside’ of a Russian leader in the Crimean War and ‘we can do it again’

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Vladimir Putin has gone 'full tonto' on Ukraine says UK Defence Secretary Ben Wallace

In unguarded comments the Defence Secretary said the Scots Guards had 'kicked the backside' of Russia in the Crimean War and could do so again.

Daily Record

Russia-Ukraine war: UK says Putin has gone 'full tonto' and we can 'kick his backside'

Defence Secretary Ben Wallace said Britain had 'kicked the backside' of Russia during the Crimean War and 'we can always do it again' - as the UK announced new weapons for Ukraine and a review of RT's broadcast licence

Daily Mirror

Putin has gone ‘full tonto’ over Ukraine, says Defence Secretary

In unguarded comments, Ben Wallace said the Scots Guards had ‘kicked the backside’ of a Russian leader in the Crimean War and ‘we can do it again’.

The Independent UK

Camilla 'to receive Queen Mother's priceless crown when Charles becomes king'

The Queen Mother’s crown, which was created for King George VI’s coronation in 1937, features 2,800 diamonds and was given to Queen Victoria in 1856 by the Sultan of Turkey as a gesture of gratitude for British support during the Crimean War

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