Talk:Battle of the Alma

message: This is nonsense : 
"Unfortunately, the Light Division had not extended its line far enough to the left and as it advanced it did so at a slight angle. Sir George Brown was extremely shortsighted and he failed to notice that this had occurred. Soon the troops on the right of the Light Division and the left of the 2nd Division were merging."
Why "it did so at a slight angle" ?
It says not extended enough to the left. So extending a slight angle is what was needed to prevent the troops from merging.
"failed to notice" the angle ?  Where's the failing ?  The goal was specifically to make an angle to extend to the left.
Please explain.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Trogne30 (talk • contribs) 17:06, 16 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  contradiction 

message: Google Maps location for the battlefield: 44.845829, 33.603036 If someone knows where it should go in
What is this? It looks like its been translated through BabelFish or something - I'd fix it up, but I'm having trouble making sense of it. Where does it come from originally? --Camembert
:It appears to be a heavily biased (pro-France) article... I can't be bothered replacing it with something a little more NPOVish if it's just going to keep being reverted --taras
Thanks for helping anyway - I've cribbed a little bit extra in, but I really am just cribbing, and can't vouch for its accuracy. --Camembert
:Neither can I, I have checked the basic facts against some other sources to make sure this stuff isn't just made up though! --taras
This page would be greatly improved if a map of the battlefield was included
::What about signing and dating your comments, for a start? Citing sources might help too. By the way, the Russian article says that the French were decisive. Stammer 18:13, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Old talk

message: Who was numerically superior? Article says Russians, table says franco-english alliance (33k vs 52 k, not counting cavalry). YoungSpinoza 21:48, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Numbers

message: Who considers this the first battle of the Crimean war?
This is neither the first clash nor the first land battle of the Crimean war.
Is there a reason for this or is this just a mistake?
Feyre (talk) 09:56, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: "First battle"?

message: I dont know quite where to put this?however the pic on the main page shows the English memorial, i have been to this place and believe it to be the Russian memorial, if you look closely you can see the English memorial in the background, plenty of pics avialable if you want to see
Alex Swadling Perth Australia
:Perhaps the picture here could do with a caption, e.g. "Battle memorials near the Alma River". The original contributor posted his/her picture on Commons, an international site, and the caption doesn't mean that the memorial is English, but that the language the contributor used is in English. Your pictures would be very welcome there as well. Any help? --Old Moonraker (talk) 13:56, 2 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Memorials

message: Nothing against Orlando Figes, who is assumed to have good expertise and source material here, but citations from different sources and authors should be added if possible. Dl2000 (talk) 21:53, 14 October 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Need some diversity of citations

message: Apart from Menshikov, which russian generals took part?  Crawiki (talk) 21:20, 21 November 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Russian generals?