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Crossing the Alma!
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#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