https://padlet.com/katemcgw/56wuukzgv6hl Mary Seacole 2 en-us 2016-11-24 17:26:05 UTC 2025-11-08 02:13:50 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/katemcgw/56wuukzgv6hl/wish/141343608 The Crimean War was a military conflict fought from October 1853 to March 1856 in which the Russian Empire lost to an alliance of France, Britain, the Ottoman Empire, and Sardinia. The immediate cause involved the rights of Christian minorities in the Holy Land, which was a part of the Ottoman Empire. The French promoted the rights of Roman Catholics, while Russia promoted those of the Eastern Orthodox Church.]]> 2016-12-02 11:20:05 UTC https://padlet.com/katemcgw/56wuukzgv6hl/wish/141343608 https://padlet.com/katemcgw/56wuukzgv6hl/wish/141344830 "Pleasure was hunted keenly. Cricket matches, pic-nics, dinner parties, races, theatricals, all found their admirers."
"Several were given in compliment to our allies, and many distinguished Frenchmen have tested my powers of cooking. You might have seen at one party some of their most famous officers. At once were present a Prince of the Imperial family of France, the Duc de Rouchefoucault, and a certain corporal in the French service, who was perhaps the best known man in the whole army, the Viscount Talon. They expressed themselves highly gratified at the carte, and perhaps were not a little surprised as course after course made its appearance, and to soup and fish succeeded turkeys, saddle of mutton, fowls, ham, tongue, curry, pastry of many sorts, custards, jelly, blanc-mange, and olives."]]> 2016-12-02 11:29:36 UTC https://padlet.com/katemcgw/56wuukzgv6hl/wish/141344830 https://padlet.com/katemcgw/56wuukzgv6hl/wish/141345058 "My recollections of hunting in the Crimea are confined to seeing troops of horsemen sweep by with shouts and yells after some wretched dog. Once I was very nearly frightened out of my wits – my first impression being that the Russians had carried into effect their old threat of driving us into the sea – by the startling appearance of a large body of horsemen tearing down the hill after, apparently, nothing. However I discovered in good time that, in default of vermin, they were chasing a brother officer with a paper bag."]]> 2016-12-02 11:31:02 UTC https://padlet.com/katemcgw/56wuukzgv6hl/wish/141345058 https://padlet.com/katemcgw/56wuukzgv6hl/wish/141345360 "A few weeks before Christmas, happened that fearful explosion, in the French ammunition park, which destroyed so many lives. We had experienced nothing at all like it before. The earth beneath us, even at the distance of three miles, rocked and troubled with the shock; and so great was the force of the explosion, that a piece of stone was hurled with some violence against the door of the British Hotel. We all felt for the French very much, although I do not think that the armies agreed quite so well after the taking of the Malakhoff, and the unsuccessful assault upon the Redan, as they had done previously. I saw several instances of unpleasantness and collision, arising from allusion to sore points. One, in particular occurred in my store."]]> 2016-12-02 11:32:59 UTC https://padlet.com/katemcgw/56wuukzgv6hl/wish/141345360 https://padlet.com/katemcgw/56wuukzgv6hl/wish/141345684 Coined the term ""thin red line" referring to the British troops "The Russians dash on towards that thin red streak topped with a line of steel..."]]> 2016-12-02 11:35:02 UTC https://padlet.com/katemcgw/56wuukzgv6hl/wish/141345684