Battle of Alma

Olteniţa - Chetatea - Silistra - Sinope - Kurekdere - Petropavlovsk -Kamchatsky - Alma - Sevastopol - Balaklava - Inkerman - Evpatoria - Taganrog - Çorğun - Kars - Malakhov - Kinburn - Tschernaja - Third Paris Peace

The Battle of the Alma (20 September 1854) was a battle in the Crimean War between Russia on the one hand, and France and Britain on the other. It was the first encounter between the warring parties in the Crimea and ended with a victory for the Allies.

Outline of the armies

  • British Army ( Lord Raglan ) Cavalry Division (Lord Lucan )
  • 1st Infantry Division (George, 2nd Duke of Cambridge )
  • 2nd Infantry Division ( De Lacy Evans )
  • 3rd Infantry Division ( Richard England)
  • 4th Infantry Division ( Cathcart )
  • Light Division ( George Brown )
  • French Army ( Armand- Jacques Leroy - Achille de Saint- Arnaud ) Cavalry Brigade ( Cassaignolles )
  • Cavalry Brigade ( D' Allonville )
  • 1st Division ( Canrobert )
  • 2nd Division ( Bosquet )
  • 3rd Division ( Prince Napoléon )
  • 4th Division ( Élie -Frédéric Forey )

Course

The Anglo-French expeditionary force landed on 13 September 1854 on the Crimea. Six days later, the Allies marched inland, where they were situated on the river Alma by the Russians under Prince Alexander Menshikov. Menshikov had taken a well-developed position on a mountain plateau. Gorchakov commanded the Russian right wing, Kiryakov the left.

After difficulties with the coordination of the attack of the Allies between the commanders Marshal Arnaud and Lord Raglan, the French division of Pierre Bosquet could reach the plateau. The British should take against the right wing opposing a similar attack. This was, however, rather poorly coordinated and did not lead to disaster only by the strength of the British soldiers. The French were able to create a second division and artillery on the plateau and thus win the battle in the meantime.

Monuments and Memories

Napoleon III. was one of the bridges over the Seine in Paris after the battle call, the Pont de l' Alma.

Also the Alma mine in Gelsenkirchen, 1855 planned by French engineers, was named after this battle.

September 20 Alma River (Ukraine) Second French Empire Jacques Leroy de Saint Arnaud FitzRoy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan Battle of Cetate Siege of Silistra Siege of Petropavlovsk Siege of Sevastopol (1854–55) Battle of Balaclava Battle of Inkerman Battle of Eupatoria Siege of Kars Treaty of Paris (1856) George Bingham, 3rd Earl of Lucan George de Lacy Evans George Cathcart George Brown (British Army officer)
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