At the northern end of the Black Sea, Crimea sits at the crossroads of Europe and Asia, having been at various times in its ...

Britain's most decorated war heroes took a final stand today before their gallantry gongs are removed from display. The ...

Although the proximate cause of the Crimean War in the mid-19th century was a dispute between Russia and the Ottoman Empire over control of Christian holy sites in Jerusalem, historians also ...

An officer being poured a drink at an army camp in Russia, during the Crimean War. Although the proximate cause of the Crimean War in the mid-19th century was a dispute between Russia and the ...

The monument marks the scuttling of the Russians ships in 1854 to protect the harbor from Allied troops (United Kingdom, French and Italy's Piedmontese) that landed in the Crimea and besieged ...

An officer being poured a drink at an army camp in Russia, during the Crimean War. (Roger Fenton/Getty Images | Hulton Archive) Although the proximate cause of the Crimean War in the mid-19th ...