Russian imperialism, and its opponents, are often forgotten. Throughout the early 19th Century, Russia fought to subdue the mountain tribes of Chechnya and Dagestan and the Muslim guerrilla leader Imam Shamil. Who will become Lord of the Caucasus?

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The last stages of the Crimean War saw some of its fiercest combat in the Allied assaults on Sevastopol. What the nations of Europe learned in the trenches would change how they viewed each other - and how they viewed themselves.

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In 1855, a woman of color arrived on the Crimea to do her part for the British war effort. Mary Seacole, a mixed-race Creole widow, would be one of the great British heroines of the Crimea, a light driving back the melting dark.

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A young Russian army officer arrived in Sevastopol in December 1854, and he was transformed by his experience in the Crimean War. Let's take a look at the Siege of Sevastopol with our tour guide, Ensign Leo Tolstoy.

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The winter of 1854-1855 would test every army on the Crimea to their limits. Only the intervention of heroes and heroines from across the class system would bring their armies through the darkness - and into the light of the first mass media war.

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Four armies are locked on a desperate, bitter struggle around the fortress city of Sevastopol, the key to the Crimea. But in the valleys of Balaclava and the fog of Inkerman, it is the soldiers, not the generals, who decide the fate of empires.

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The armies of the Crimean War were a product of their histories, their societies, and their cultures. They reflected the nations that deployed them. When they finally collide on the Alma River, their strengths...and weaknesses...will be revealed.

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Welcome to the Victorian Age, the 19th Century. The decline of the Ottoman Empire, the Sick Man of Europe, has caused an international crisis. Ambition, fear, escalation and miscalculation will pull Europe into the first modern conflict.

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A brief introduction to the Crimean War series and Europe in the 19th Century. Need some context before we get into the story? Don't know your Prussias from your Russias? Find the answers here!

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In today's Unfiltered Soldiers, it's time to take a look at the First World War beyond the mud and blood of trench warfare in France and Flanders. What was going on in Africa? China? The Middle East? The Balkans? Ukraine? Let's look at the Great War...beyond the Western Front.

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