The Destruction of Lord Raglan: A Tragedy of the Crimean War, 1854-55
by Christopher Hibbert
Category: Crimean War, 1853-1856

In March 1854 England declared war on Russia. A few weeks later, "the finest army that had ever left these shores sailed from Portsmouth, gloriously clothed, splendidly confident and was destroyed. The author has consulted a mass of family and official papers, diaries of this terrible war and of the British Commander-inChief, Lord Raglan.