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Applying economic pressure and blocking bulky Russian exports helped win the war, says Professor Lambert

Opinion Professor Andrew Lambert on the Crimean War's legacy . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Roger Fenton’s assistant, Marcus Sparling, poses with their mobile ‘Photographic Van’

The major innovations of the Crimean War . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Portrayal of the Charge of the Light Brigade

The Charge of the Light Brigade Who blundered in the Valley of Death?

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The Queen distributing the Crimea Medal, Horseguards Parade, London, c1850s, (1888).

How did the Crimean War end? . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The Battle of Sinop.

8 battles that shaped the Crimean War . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Charge of the Light Brigade during the Battle of Balaclava, 1854. Artist Hayes, Michael Angelo (1820-1877).

The Crimean War A timeline of key moments

Soldiers in the Crimean War

Your ultimate guide to the Crimean War

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A painting of Hannibal leading his men into Italy in 218 BC, seated on top a war elephant (Photo by Peter Horree / Alamy Stock Photo)

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Sat in his Spitfire adorned with Figaro the Cat is decorated Second World War fighter pilot Ian Gleed, who had to hide his homosexuality (Photo by Royal Air Force Official Photographer/ Imperial War Museums via Getty Images)

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Hiding in plain sight The prejudice and tolerance of homosexuality in WW2 armed forces

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A painting shows Napoleon’s retreat from Moscow in October 1812. Tens of thousands of his troops perished over the winter months that followed

What if… Napoleon had defeated Russia? . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Mavia of Tanukh, illustration by Lynn Hatzius

Mavia Of Tanukh Warrior queen of Arabia . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Pod Tobias Kelly WL

Refusing to fight in WW2 . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The commandos head off in José Ferrer’s Cockleshell Heroes (1955)

Second World War

Cockleshell Heroes: the real story of WW2’s Operation Frankton

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Alexander the Great dressed as a Byzantine emperor

The remarkable afterlife of Alexander the Great . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Cover illustration from Le Petit Journal, 1908, showing Ferdinand I of Bulgaria declaring independence (centre) and Franz Joseph I of Austria Hungary seizing Bosnia and Herzegovina from a forlorn-looking Ottoman sultan, Abdülhamid II (Photo by Archives Charmet / Alamy Images)

Divided they fell: how war, revolution and sectarianism led to the end of the Ottoman empire . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.