1
On British naval defence against France, see A. Lambert,
The Crimean War: British Grand Strategy, 1853–56
(Manchester, 1990), pp. 25–7.
2
RA VIC/MAIN/QVJ/1855, 16 Apr.
3
Mémoires du duc De Persigny
(Paris, 1896), p. 212.
4
A. J. P. Taylor,
The Struggle for Mastery in Europe 1848–1918
(Oxford, 1955), p. 49.
5
Mémoires du duc De Persigny
, p. 225; E. Bapst,
Les Origines de la Guerre en Crimée: La France et la Russie de 1848 à 1851
(Paris, 1912), pp. 325–7.
6
FO 78/895, Rose to Malmesbury, 28 Dec. 1852.
7
K. Vitzthum von Eckstadt,
St Petersburg and London in the Years 1852–64
, 2 vols. (London, 1887), vol. 1, p. 38; D. Goldfrank,
The Origins of the Crimean War
(London, 1995), pp. 109–10.
8
FO 65/424, Seymour to Russell, 11 and 22 Jan., 22 Feb. 1853.
9
FO 65/424, Seymour to Russell, 11 Jan., 21 Feb. 1853; A. Cunningham,
Eastern Questions in the Nineteenth Century: Collected Essays
, 2 vols. (London, 1993), vol. 2, p. 136.
10
FO 65/424, Seymour to Russell, 22 Feb. 1853; FO 65/425, Seymour to Clarendon, 29 Mar. 1853.
11
Cunningham,
Eastern Questions
, vol. 2, pp. 139–40.
12
FO 65/424, Seymour to Russell, 10 Feb. 1853.
13
RGAVMF, f. 19, op. 7, d. 135, l. 37; FO 65/424, Seymour to Russell, 7 Jan. 1853;
Correspondence Respecting the Rights and Privileges of the Latin and Greek Churches in Turkey
, 2 vols. (London, 1854–6), vol. 1, pp. 121–4.
14
RGAVMF, f. 19, op. 7, d. 135, l. 43; J. Curtiss,
Russia’s Crimean War
(Durham, NC, 1979), p. 94.
15
FO 65/420, Clarendon to Seymour, 23 Mar., 5 Apr. 1853; Goldfrank,
Origins of the Crimean War
, pp. 136–8.
16
Mémoires du duc De Persigny
, pp. 226–31; Bapst,
Origines de la Guerre en Crimée
, p. 354.
17
Mémoires du comte Horace de Viel-Castel sur le règne de Napoléon III, 1851–1864
, 2 vols. (Paris, 1979), vol. 1, p. 180; J. Ridley,
Napoleon III and Eugenie
(London, 1979), p. 365; S. Lane-Poole,
The Life of the Right Honourable Stratford Canning
, 2 vols. (London, 1888), vol. 2, p. 237.
18
Correspondence Respecting the Rights and Privileges of the Latin and Greek Churches
, vol. 1, pp. 256–8; Cunningham,
Eastern Questions
, pp. 159–62; Goldfrank,
Origins of the Crimean War
, pp. 147–8, 156–7; A. Saab,
The Origins of the Crimean Alliance
(Charlottesville, Va., 1977), pp. 135–7; Lane-Poole,
The Life of the Right Honourable Stratford Canning
, vol. 2, p. 248.
19
BOA, AMD, 44/81, Musurus to Reshid Pasha, 13 May 1853; RGAVMF, f. 19, op. 7, d. 135, l. 52; C. Badem, ‘The Ottomans and the Crimean War (1853–1856)’, Ph.D. diss. (Sabanci University, 2007), pp. 74–6.
20
A. Zaionchkovskii,
Vostochnaia voina 1853–1856
, 3 vols. (St Petersburg, 2002), vol. 1, pp. 739–40.
21
Russkii arkhiv
, 1891, no. 8, p. 169; ‘Voina s Turtsiei 1828–1829 i 1853–1854’,
Russkaia starina
, 16 (1876), pp. 681–7; P. Schroeder,
Austria, Great Britain and the Crimean War: The Destruction of the European Concert
(Ithaca, NY, 1972), p. 76.
22
RGVIA, f. 846, op. 16, d. 5407, ll. 7–11; d. 5451, ll. 13–14; Zaionchkovskii,
Vostochnaia voina
, vol. 1, p. 74.
23
Za mnogo let: Zapiski (vospominaniia) neizvestnogo 1844–1874 gg.
(St Petersburg, 1897), p. 74; RGB OR, f. 743, T. Klemm, ‘Vospominaniia starogo-soldata, rasskazannye synu, kadetu VII klacca Pskovskogo kadetskogo korpusa’, l. 6.
24
F. Kagan,
The Military Reforms of Nicholas I: The Origins of the Modern Russian Army
(London, 1999), p. 221; E. Brooks, ‘Reform in the Russian Army, 1856–1861’,
Slavic Review
, 43/1 (Spring 1984), p. 64; E. Wirtschafter,
From Serf to Russian Soldier
(Princeton, 1990), p. 24.
25
Brooks, ‘Reform’, pp. 70–71; K. Marx,
The Eastern Question: A Reprint of Letters Written 1853–1856 Dealing with the Events of the Crimean War
(London, 1969), pp. 397–8; J. Curtiss,
The Russian Army under Nicholas I, 1825–1855
(Durham, NC, 1965), p. 115; P. Alabin,
Chetyre voiny: Pokhodnye zapiski v voinu 1853, 1854, 1855 i 1856 godov
, 2 vols. (Viatka, 1861), vol. 1, p. 43.
26
Curtiss,
Russian Army
, pp. 248–9.
27
Za mnogo let
, pp. 34–5, 45–7; RGB OR, f. 743, T. Klemm, ‘Vospominaniia starogo-soldata’, ll. 4, 7–8; Wirtschafter,
From Serf to Russian Soldier
, p. 87.
28
BOA, I, HR, 328/21222; S. Kiziltoprak, ‘Egyptian Troops in the Crimean War (1853–1856)’, in
Vostochnaya (Krymskaya) Voina 1853–1856 godov: Novye materialy i novoe osmyslenie
, 2 vols. (Simferopol, 2005), vol. 1, p. 49; Lane-Poole,
The Life of the Right Honourable Stratford Canning
, vol. 2, p. 296.
29
A. Slade,
Turkey and the Crimean War: A Narrative of Historical Events
(London, 1867), p. 186; E. Perret,
Les Français en Orient: Récits de Crimée 1854–1856
(Paris, 1889), pp. 86–7.
30
T. Buzzard,
With the Turkish Army in the Crimea and Asia Minor
(London, 1915), p. 121; J. Reid,
Crisis of the Ottoman Empire: Prelude to Collapse 1839–1878
(Stuttgart, 2000), p. 257.
31
RGVIA, f. 450, op. 1, d. 33, ll. 4–12;
A Visit to Sebastopol a Week after Its Fall: By an Officer of the Anglo-Turkish Contingent
(London, 1856), p. 53;
Vospominaniia ofitsera o voennyh deistviyah na Dunae v 1853–54 gg.: Iz dnevnika P.B.
(St Petersburg, 1887), p. 566.
32
M. Chamberlain,
Lord Aberdeen: A Political Biography
(London, 1983), p. 476; FO 65/421, Palmerston to Seymour, 16 July 1853;
Correspondence Respecting the Rights and Privileges of the Latin and Greek Churches
, vol. 1, p. 400.
33
R. Florescu,
The Struggle against Russia in the Romanian Principalities 1821–1854
(Monachii, 1962), pp. 241–6.
34
FO 65/422, Palmerston to Seymour, 2 Aug. 1853.
35
Correspondence Respecting the Rights and Privileges of the Latin and Greek Churches
, vol. 1, pp. 400–404.
36
Goldfrank,
Origins of the Crimean War
, pp. 190–213.
37
The Greville Memoirs 1814–1860
, ed. L. Strachey and R. Fulford, 8 vols. (London, 1938), vol. 1, p. 85.
38
H. Maxwell,
The Life and Letters of George William Frederick, Fourth Earl of Clarendon
, 2 vols. (London, 1913), vol. 2, p. 25.
39
Slade,
Turkey and the Crimean War
, pp. 101–2, 107; Saab,
Origins of the Crimean Alliance
, p. 64; Cunningham,
Eastern Questions
, pp. 198–9.
40
Saab,
Origins of the Crimean Alliance
, p. 81; Badem, ‘The Ottomans and the Crimean War’, pp. 80, 90.
41
The Times
, 27 Sept. 1853;
Correspondence Respecting the Rights and Privileges of the Latin and Greek Churches
, vol. 1, pp. 562–3.
42
A. Türkgeldi,
Mesâil-i Mühimme-i Siyâsiyye
, 3 vols. (Ankara, 1957–60), vol. 1, pp. 319–21; Badem, ‘The Ottomans and the Crimean War’, p. 93.