21
WO 28/188, Burgoyne to Raglan, 6 Oct. 1854; J. Spilsbury, The Thin Red Line: An Eyewitness History of the Crimean War (London, 2005), p. 138.
22
Calthorpe, Letters, p. 125; NAM 1968–07–270 (‘Letters from the Crimea Written during the Years 1854, 55 and 56 by a Staff Officer Who Was There’), p. 125; H. Rappaport, No Place for Ladies: The Untold Story of Women in the Crimean War (London, 2007), pp. 82–3.
23
D. Austin, ‘Blunt Speaking: The Crimean War Reminiscences of John Elijah Blunt, Civilian Interpreter’, Crimean War Research Society: Special Publication, 33 (n.d.), pp. 24, 32, 55.
24
Mrs Duberly’s War, p. 93; NAM 1968–07–270 (‘Letters from the Crimea Written during the Years 1854, 55 and 56 by a Staff Officer Who Was There’), pp. 119–20; W. Munro, Records of Service and Campaigning in Many Lands, 2 vols. (London, 1887), vol. 2, p. 88.
25
H. Franks, Leaves from a Soldier’s Notebook (London, 1904), p. 80; NAM 1958–04–32 (Forrest letter, 27 Oct. 1854).
26
Spilsbury, Thin Red Line, pp. 155–6; H. Small, The Crimean War: Queen Victoria’s War with the Russian Tsars (Stroud, 2007), pp. 71–2.
27
Small, The Crimean War, pp. 73–82.
28
R. Portal, Letters from the Crimea, 1854–55 (Winchester, 1900), p. 112. For a version of events that has Nolan trying to redirect the charge, see D. Austin, ‘Nolan Did Try to Redirect the Light Brigade’, War Correspondent, 23/4 (2006), pp. 20–21.
29
Spilsbury, Thin Red Line, pp. 161–2.
30
S. Kozhukov, ‘Iz krymskikh vospominanii o poslednei voine’, Russkii arkhiv, 2 (1869), pp. 023–025.
31
G. Paget, The Light Cavalry Brigade in the Crimea (London, 1881), p. 73.
32
Mrs Duberly’s War, p. 95.
33
Small, The Crimean War, pp. 64, 86–8; RGVIA, f. 846, op. 16, d. 5585, l. 31; Dubrovin, Istoriia krymskoi voiny, vol. 2, pp. 144–7.
34
N. Woods, The Past Campaign: A Sketch of the War in the East, 2 vols. (London, 1855), vol. 2, pp. 12–14; Austin, ‘Blunt Speaking’, pp. 54–6.
35
N. Dubrovin, 349-dnevnaia zashchita Sevastopolia (St Petersburg, 2005), p. 91; A. Tiutcheva, Pri dvore dvukh imperatov: Vospominaniia, dnevnik, 1853–1882 (Moscow, 1928–9), p. 161.
36
A. Kinglake, The Invasion of the Crimea: Its Origin and an Account of Its Progress down to the Death of Lord Raglan, 8 vols. (London, 1863), vol. 5, pp. 1–24.
37
NAM 1963–11–151 (Letter, 27 Oct. 1854); NAM 1986–03–103 (Letter, 31 Oct. 1854).
38
Tarle, Krymskaia voina, vol. 2, p. 140.
39
B. Gooch, The New Bonapartist Generals in the Crimean War (The Hague, 1959), p. 145.
40
NAM 1994–02–172 (Letter, 22 Feb. 1855).
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