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...Davies made a final trip, which ended fortnight ago, through the Ukraine and the Black Sea area. To the inhabitants of Caucasian and Crimean ports the sight of the Davies 316-foot yacht Sea Cloud was a never-ending diversion. They thronged the piers to watch the Ambassador step from the yacht's speedy trim launch manned by snappily costumed, briskly saluting seamen...
...Warner). On Oct. 25, 1854, the suicidal advance of 673 British cavalrymen into the teeth of Russian cannon fire through a valley at Balaklava, in the Crimean war, proved to be a maneuver less beneficial to England's military than to its literary history. Caused by a mistake in orders, the sole practical significance of the charge was to give the glamour of a spectacular British victory to what was really a minor British defeat. Its significance in literature, as the inspiration of Tennyson's famed ballad, will be considerably enhanced by this picture. The Charge...
...reads the reports of her father's committee on the conditions of nurses in London's hospitals. The conditions are appalling and Flo's life work is cut out for her. She goes to a German nursing school, returns to England at the outbreak of the Crimean War (1854), wangles permission from the War Office to take a band of nurses to Scutari, there staff the British base hospital...
...varying sizes, shapes, shades and significance are the medals with which nations honor their military heroes, living and dead. No. 1 Medal of the British Empire is the bronze, red-ribboned Victoria Cross, bearing the Royal Crest and the inscription FOR VALOUR. Since the close of the Crimean War in 1856, 1,155 persons have won it "for some signal act of valour or devotion . . . in the presence of the enemy." During the World War, when other medals were being passed out with feverish generosity, the V.C. went to only 633 fighters, proudly maintained its high prestige...
...advocate a slogan, 'Old Uns First.' Why not? We've had a good inning. The young 'uns haven't had any. And any old man can learn to work an airplane after awhile. . . . We haven't paid for the Crimean War yet, or for Waterloo yet, and we never will. But did any one say they settled anything? . . . Wars have always left behind the seeds of future wars...