The Crimean War Wrap-up with Extra History LIES
Added 2023-07-21 17:30:01 +0000 UTCWelcome Extra Historians to Lies, where we talk about the mistakes we made and the details we couldn't quite squeeze into our Crimean War Series. With questions like, wasn't the 7 Years' war the first world war, not the Crimean war? Who are the Vivandières and why were the British so jealous of them? What is war tourism and why was it so prominent in the Crimean war?
Recommended Reading for this series:
Crimea by Orlando Figes also sold as Crimea: The Last Crusade
Crimea: The Great Crimean War by Trevor Royle
A series of Osprey Publishing Books
-Balaklava 1854: The Charge of the Light Brigade
-Inkerman 1854: The Soldiers’ Battle
-The British Army of the Crimea
-The Russian Army of the Crimean War, 1854-56
-Ottoman Armies 1820 to 1914
The Crimean War: A Clash of Empires, a 1997 documentary from Channel 4
Missed an Episode?
Part 1 - World War Zero | Part 2 - If it Bleeds, It Leads! I Part 3 - The Battle of Alma I Part 4 - Into the Valley of Death I Part 5 - Storming Sevastopol I The Light Brigade I Lies I Music
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Comments
I had posted a patreon question on how the war was perceived in Ottoman Empire. Didn't see that answered here.
Moin Asmi
2023-07-23 06:24:18 +0000 UTCOh, I love me some lies.
FrankHarr
2023-07-22 02:52:42 +0000 UTCAw, no mention of how the Austrian Empire struggled with neutrality?
Brian Rose
2023-07-22 00:25:59 +0000 UTCI actually translated this account in college Latin. Probably the most interesting text we worked with.
Robert Rath
2023-07-21 18:33:14 +0000 UTCJust a quick historical point about Pliny the Elder from the Basilisk episode, he had been commanding a mission to rescue a friend of his who was stranded at the foot of Vesuvius and was trapped at a small town called Stabiae by an onshore wind; the next day, his group made the decision to flee using pillows tied to their heads to protect themselves from falling rocks, and Pliny, who had spent his life studying natural phenomena, was so transfixed by the eruption of Vesuvius that he made no attempt to save himself and died where he stood, overwhelmed by gases carried by the Volcanic eruption. Thus fell the most curious Roman of them all.
Martin Verran
2023-07-21 17:45:33 +0000 UTC
