Question: Who was not ready to start the attack?
Answer: the French

Question: Who was outgunned due to heavy guns at a southern defense?
Answer: the allies

Question: Who wanted to commence with the attack during the afternoon?
Answer: The British

Question: Who did the Russians attack at the beginning off the Battle of Balaclava?
Answer: 93rd Highlanders

Question: Near what village were the 93rd Highlanders posted at?
Answer: Kadikoi

Question: What risky maneuver did Sir Colin Campbell have the 93rd Highlanders form? 
Answer: a single line, two men deep

Question: Who led the 93rd Highlanders?
Answer: Sir Colin Campbell

Question: What weapon did Sir Colin Campbell troops use during the Battle of Alma?
Answer: Minie rifles

Question: Who countered the Russian cavalry's movement?
Answer: Heavy Brigade

Question: Who failed to take advantage of the retreat?
Answer: local commanders

Question: Who sent the order to have them advance their position?
Answer: Lord Raglan

Question: Who ignored Lord Raglan's advice to advance?
Answer: The local commanders

Question: Who led the charge on the Valley of Balaclava?
Answer: Cardigan

Question: Who was Cardigan under fire from when advancing on the Valley of Balaclava?
Answer: Russian batteries

Question: How many people did Cardigan lose during the Light Brigade?  
Answer: 278

Question: Who wrote the famous poem about the Light Brigade? 
Answer: Alfred Lord Tennyson

Question: What was the name of the poem that memorialized the Light Brigade?
Answer: The Charge of the Light Brigade

Question: What stopped ground operations during the winter?
Answer: a deteriorating supply situation

Question: What caused the HMS Prince to sink?
Answer: a storm

Question: What was the HMS Prince carrying when it sunk?
Answer: a cargo of winter clothing

Question: What arrived in January with an engineering crew?
Answer: A tramroad

Question: What caused the electrical telegraph to be delayed for some time?
Answer: the frozen ground

Question: What did the French believe was instrumental in their defense?
Answer: the Malakoff

Question: Where was the Russians building a new fort?
Answer: Mamelon

Question: Mamelon is found on a hill in front of what suburban commune?
Answer: Malakoff

Question: After fighting for weeks, what did the Russians continue to have control over?
Answer: the Mamelon

Question: Who was the garrison commander that died on June 30th 1855?
Answer: Admiral Nakhimov

Question: What figure died on June 28th 1855?
Answer: Raglan

Question: What did the Russians try to attack during the month of August?
Answer: the base at Balaclava

Question: Who defended the base at Balaclava?
Answer: newly arrived Sardinian and Ottoman troops

Question: Who was defeated at the battle of Tchernaya?
Answer: the Russians

Question: What was being built that caused unpremeditated fighting on each side?
Answer: forward rifle pits and defensive positions

Question: What month did the capture of Malakoff take place?
Answer: September

Question: Who captured Malakoff?
Answer: the French

Question: Who failed to take back Malakoff?
Answer: the Russian defences

Question: Who took control of the Great Redan?
Answer: the British

Question: What did the British-French commanders send to disrupt Russian communications and supplies?
Answer: Anglo-French naval squadron

Question: What sea was the Anglo-French naval squadron sent to?
Answer: Azov Sea

Question: Where did British-French warships enter on May 12th 1855?
Answer: the Kerch Strait

Question: What seaport did the British-French attack with steamers and gunboats?
Answer: the seaport of Taganrog

Question: The seaport of Taganrog is near what port city?
Answer: Rostov on Don

Question: What caused the HMS Jasper to get stuck in shallow water?
Answer: a fisherman who moved buoys

Question: Who blew up the HMS Jasper?
Answer: The Cossacks

Question: During what days did the allied squadron third siege attempt take place?
Answer: 19–31 August

Question: The allied fleet departed the Gulf of Taganrog on what date?
Answer: 2nd September

Question: Why did the third siege attempt fail?
Answer: the city was already fortified

Question: Who captured the border front of Saint Nicholas during a night attack?
Answer: the Turks

Question: How many troops did the Turks have when crossing the Cholok River?
Answer: 20000 troops

Question: After giving up their position at Poti and Redut Kale, where did the Russians retreat to?
Answer: Marani

Question: How many troops did the Turks send to Gyumri?
Answer: 30000

Question: What were the Turks waiting for when positioned near Akhaltsike?
Answer: reinforcements

Question: Who make the Turks retreat back to Batum?
Answer: Eristov

Question: Who occupied Bayazit?
Answer: Wrangel

Question: Where did the main forces stand?
Answer: Kars and Gyumri

Question: On August 4th, who thought the other side was withdrawing? 
Answer: the Russians

Question: Who made a secret agreement to remain neutral?
Answer: the Persians

Question: What caused the number of Turkish soldiers to decrease?
Answer: disease

Question: How man troops were the Turks forces in the east reduced to? 
Answer: 75,000

Question: Who kept Muravyev informed about the Turks at Kar?
Answer: The local Armenian population

Question: What did Muravyev attend to do to the Turks in order to defeat them?
Answer: starve them out

Question: What city did Muravyev decide not to take control over?
Answer: Erzerum

Question: Who vetoed Omar Pasha from landing in Georgia?
Answer: the western powers

Question: In September of 1855, how many Turks could be found at Batum?
Answer: 8000

Question: When landing at Batum, what were the Turks primary focus?
Answer: Sukhum Kale

Question: What river divides Abkhazia from Georgia?
Answer: the Ingur River

Question: What did Omar Pasha finally reach on December 2nd 1855?
Answer: the Tskhenis-dzqali

Question: What is the Russian capital?
Answer: Saint Petersburg

Question: Which theater was next to Saint Petersburg?
Answer: The Baltic

Question: Which fleet joined the Baltic attack?
Answer: Anglo-French fleet

Question: When did the Anglo-French fleet join the Baltic attack?
Answer: April 1854

Question: Which two fleets returned to Kronstadt?
Answer: British and French fleet

Question: When did the French and British capture the Russian Bomarsund fortress?
Answer: August 1855

Question: Where was the Russian Bomarsund fortress at?
Answer: Åland Islands

Question: Who led the ship Rossiya?
Answer: Captain Viktor Poplonsky

Question: What was captain Viktor Poplonsky defending? 
Answer: entrance to the harbor

Question: What greatly benefited the Russian resistance?
Answer: newly invented blockade mines

Question: Who contributed the most to developing naval mining?
Answer: Immanuel Nobel

Question: Immanuel Noble had expensive knowledge in what field?
Answer: industrial explosives

Question: Who named the torpedo mines?
Answer: Fulton

Question: What was Immanuel Nobel son's name?
Answer: Alfred Nobel

Question: Who was in charge of the HMS Pique?
Answer: Rear Admiral David Price

Question: The Russians escaped under the cover of what in 1855?
Answer: snow

Question: Petropavlovsk is located on what peninsula?
Answer: the Kamchatka Peninsula

Question: Who gave Camillo di Cavour the orders to send soldiers to aid the French and British forces?
Answer: Victor Emmanuel II

Question: Camillo di Cavour sent how many troops to aid the French and British forces?
Answer: 15,000

Question: Who commanded the soldiers sent by Camillo di Cavour?
Answer: General Alfonso La Marmora

Question: The Battle of the Chernaya took place in what year?
Answer: 1855

Question: Where was Victor Emmanuel II from?
Answer: Piedmont-Sardinia

Question: When Russia attacked the Ottoman Empire who glimpsed an opportunity to advance North and South?
Answer: King Otto of Greece

Question: When the Ottoman forces were busy, who did Greece invade?
Answer: Thessaly and Epirus