The Crimean War is vital for understanding much of what followed the events of 1854 - 1855, but also for understanding how the contemporary. British Army came to be. The infantryman, the redcoat and his regiment, carried the war from its doomed follies to its victories against all odds. He marched out of the era of Wellington and Waterloo as a man trained to fight and die in a column and a square, and into a new age of modern warfare as a professional and pragmatic army of one. His story is told here.
