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#OTD 1855 The Daily Telegraph @Telegraph was first published, during the Crimean War. The electric telegraph linking the front to London sent news “with the speed of lightning”. As the Electric Telegraph Co, BT supplied the army's first mobile #telecoms unit in 1854 in the Crimea
#OTD in 1854, during the Crimean War, Charles Davis Lucas becomes the 1st person to win the #VictoriaCross when he removes a burning shell from HMS Hecla during bombardment of Russian fortress, Bomarsund on the Baltic coast #VC #CrimeanWar #history
6 April 1854.
Crimean War: First Shot of the War,
Richard Henry Nibbs (1816–1893)
National Maritime Museum
Today's #FE10 (Radiant Dawn) profile translation features Kieran. Part of the Crimean Royal Guard & Oscar's "rival." https://t.co/kLlLAHac5J
Day of Crimean Tatars in #Lithuania: for your freedom and ours #CrimeaIsUkraine
21 October 1854 Florence Nightingale is sent to aid at the front during the Crimean War. A London Map of Days
Cold War meets the Crimean War! #WarHorse attacks the mountain, rewriting Charge of the Light Brigade. #Sochi2014