Victorians at war

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Victorians at war

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Our points of discussion

• Industrial improvement
• When did the wars take place
• Crimean war
• First Boer war
• Uniforms
• Cartoon
• Second Boer war
• video
• Weapons
• questions

When did it take place

 first Boer war: 16 dec. 1880 - 23 march. 1881 

 Crimean War: 5 oc. 1853 - 30 mar. 1856

second Boer war: 11 oc. 1899 - 31 may 1902

When did the first Boer war start?

1. 1850
2. 1600
3. 2000
4. 1880

When did the Crimean war end?

1. 1899
2. 1853
3. 1856
4. 1789

Industrial improvement

• Victorian era
• Better weapons
• Better engines 
• More production of weapons
• Dangerous wars
• More people died

In the Crimean war

• Invasion of Crimea
• Battle of Alma river 
• Battle of Balaclava
• Battle of Inkerman
• Battle of Eupatoria

Crimean war

• Disastrous incompetence
• Early 1700’s
• Warm water ports 
• Black sea 
• The Ottoman Empire
• Rapid decline
• Exploit

How the war began

• The Napoleonic wars
• The balance of power
• The rights of Christians
• Protector of all christians
• Abdul Mejid
• Palestine

  

• Projecting power/influence
• Nicholas the first
• Warship
• Proclaim his eternal
• Respect
•  May of 1853
• Rruitt river

Invasion of Crimea

• Ottomans vs Russia
•  Oltenita
• Supply lines
• First explosives at sea
• Brittain and France wanted peace
• No expansion for Russia
• Invation of the Crimea

Battle of Alma river

• Landed at beach
• Sevastopol
• Troubles
• Mismanaged
• sleep outside - no food/water/medicine
•  4 days out of sevastopol
• russian army attack = begin battle of Alma

Battle of Balaclava

• Desiege the city
  
•  Cholera
• Oct 25th 1854
• Balaclava
• Supply chain
• Cavalry

Battle of Inkerman

• Infantry
• The thin red line
• Light brigade
• Game of telephone
• A complete failure

•  The varanza of heights
  
•   The siege of Sevastopol
• Disorganized army
• Overextended and vulnerable
• November 5th 1854
• The village of Inkerman
• Reinforcements

Battle of Eupatoria

• France and Brittain vs Russian
• 13000 vs 40000
• Fog - failed fire signal 
• Confusion among the Russians
• 1/3 of allied died/wounded/captured
• Massive storm
• Destroyed 30 allied ships
• Russian made 1 more attempt
• 3 hours 

Battle of Eupatoria

• The assault on Eupatoria
• the grand crimean central railway
• intensify their bombardments of the city
• kingdom of sardinia
• september 9th
• a handful of towns and forts
•  the azov sea
• bloody and pointless fighting

The end of the war

• The British public
•  Charge of the light brigade
• The siege of Sevastopol
• Telegram and photography 
•  Lord Palmerston
• Crippling the Russian Empire
• Tsar Alexander the second
• Treaty of Paris

First Boer war

• Lord Carnarvon
• Theophilius Shepstone
• Dec 16 1880
•  Diverse causes 
• Commando system of the Boers
• 1833
• 1867
• Feb 27 1881 - Majuba Hill

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What does this cartoon mean?

Second Boer war

• 11th of October in 1899
• unifying South Africa
•  discovery of gold on the Witwatersrand
• leaders of South Africa
• Cape Colony and the Colony of Natal
• The Peace of Vereeniging

Weapons

First Boer war

• There were two major machine guns: the Maxim and the Colt M1895t
• There were a large number of improvised grenades made with dynamite and a burning fuze. 

Crimean war

• Bayonets, swords, stones, even feet and teeth for kicking and biting

Second Boer war

• Mauser C96 pistol
• Colt Single Action Army revolver
• Remington Model 1875 revolver
• Remington Rolling Block rifle
• Winchester rifle
• Vetterli rifle

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uniform Boers