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    The Battle of the Great Redan (or the Storming of the Third Bastion; Russian: Оборона Третьего бастиона, Штурм третьего бастиона) was a major battle during...
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    Welsford of the 97th Regiment and Captain William Buck Carthew Augustus Parker of the 77 Regiment, who both died in the Battle of the Great Redan in 1855...
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    and 50th Line, and the Guard Zouaves (two battalions under Colonel Jannin) also attached British sector (see Battle of the Great Redan) French left sector...
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    Mikhail Dmitrievich Gorchakov (category Recipients of the Order of St. George of the Third Degree)
    Namestnik of Kingdom of Poland from 1856 until his death. His military career included remarkable successes, such as the Battle of the Great Redan, as well...
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  • of battles Before 301 301–1300 1301–1600 1601–1800 1801–1900 1901–2000 2001–current Naval Sieges See also List of Napoleonic Battles Battles of the American...
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    Treaty of Utrecht ceded the territory to Great Britain while allowing the Acadians to keep their lands. Reluctant to sign an unconditional oath of allegiance...
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    Sir John Campbell, 2nd Baronet (category Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom)
    of New Brunswick. He died in the Battle of the Great Redan. John Campbell was born on 14 April 1807, the second son of General Sir Archibald Campbell...
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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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    The Battle of the St. Lawrence involved marine and anti-submarine actions throughout the lower St. Lawrence River and the entire Gulf of Saint Lawrence...
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    successful in the Battle of Bloody Creek (1711). The victory at Bloody Creek rallied the local resistance, and prompted many of the Acadians who were...
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    85th Battalion (Nova Scotia Highlanders), CEF (category Battalions of the Canadian Expeditionary Force)
    The 85th Battalion (Nova Scotia Highlanders), CEF, was an infantry battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force during the Great War. The 85th Battalion...
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    for more specific battles. Those battle honours followed by a "+" are emblazoned on the regimental colour. The regimental colour of the West Nova Scotia...
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    John Granville Harkness (category British Army personnel of the Crimean War)
    the siege and the fall of Sevastopol and the Battle of the Great Redan. Two pencil drawings of the Crimea War by Harkness survive at the National Army...
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    2nd Infantry Division (United Kingdom) (category Infantry divisions of the British Army in World War I)
    cannonades, the division launched several failed attacks on Russian defensive positions, leading up to, and including the Battle of the Great Redan in 1855...
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  • Horatio Shirley (category Knights Commander of the Order of the Bath)
    command of a brigade. Wounded in the Battle of the Great Redan, he returned home on leave and commanded troops in Great Britain and Ireland until 1861....
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    cannon and the howitzer in the redan were causing great carnage amongst the American boats. Since coming ashore an hour-and-a-half earlier, the U.S. forces...
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  • Military history of Nova Scotia Military history of Canada History of the Canadian Army Canadian Forces Reserve order of battle Ministry of National Defence...
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    No. 2 Construction Battalion (category Battalions of the Canadian Expeditionary Force)
    Engineer Support Regiment having the privilege of publicly recognizing the perpetuation. The awarding of this long-overdue battle honour serves as a means to...
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    France in the Seven Years War Great Britain in the Seven Years War Louisburgh, County Mayo, a town named after the battle Military history of Nova Scotia...
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    cannonades, the Battle of the Great Redan was launched in 1855. This marked the final effort of the campaign. The expeditionary force remained in the Crimea...
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    Colin Campbell, 1st Baron Clyde (category Knights Commander of the Order of the Star of India)
    command of the 1st Division (Guards and Highland brigades) and commanded the Division at the Battle of the Great Redan in September 1855. Promoted to the local...
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  • Granville Ryder (1799–1879) (category Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Hertfordshire)
    Henry Stuart Ryder, was a junior officer in the Rifle Brigade and was killed at the Battle of the Great Redan in 1855. Lady Georgiana Ryder died in March...
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    Nova Scotia. There were three battles between the Scottish and the French: the Siege of Baleine (1629), the Siege of Cap de Sable (present-day Port La...
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    Yea, Victoria (category Pages using the Kartographer extension)
    – a British Army colonel killed in June of that year at the Battle of the Great Redan in the Crimean War, and who had been Clarke's commanding officer...
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    New Ireland (Maine) (category Massachusetts in the War of 1812)
    a Crown colony of the Kingdom of Great Britain twice established in modern-day Maine after British forces captured the area during the American Revolutionary...
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    William Hall (VC) (category Indian Rebellion of 1857 recipients of the Victoria Cross)
    Brigade from Rodney at the battles of Inkerman and Sevastopol in 1854. After a brief tour on HMS Victory, Hall transferred to the screw frigate HMS Shannon...
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    inaccessible woods, is so great that it has hitherto rendered all attempts to surprise them ineffectual". Leadership on both sides of the conflict employed standard...
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    Lacy Walter Giles Yea (category British Army personnel of the Crimean War)
    exemplary. In the summer he had command of a brigade of the Light Division during the Battle of the Great Redan. In the assault of the Redan on 18 June 1855...
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    and Great Redan repulsed (18 June 1855) Battle of the Chernaya (16 August 1855) Fifth bombardment of Sevastopol (17 August 1855) Sixth bombardment of Sevastopol...
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    from the northeast; the 3rd Louisiana Redan; the Great Redoubt; the Railroad Redoubt, protecting the gap for the railroad line entering the city; the Square...
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