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crimean

a. Denoting, of, or related to Crimea, a peninsula on the north of the Black Sea, separating it from the Sea of Azov. n. Native or inhabitant of the Crimea. n. (label en nonstandard) Crimea (gloss: the Crimean peninsula)

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India and of Ireland, and to influence English sentiment on the Crimean War and the War of Secession in the United States.

Till 1865 his main obstacle was Palmerston, who since he took the helm in the worst days of the Crimean War and conducted the ship of State into harbour, occupied an impregnable position.

Tennyson found it difficult to clear himself of suspicion, the more so that the Crimean War inspired at this time some of his most popular martial ballads and songs.

After the Crimean War Morier obtained permission to make a tour through South-east Hungary and to study for himself the mixture of Slavonic, Magyar, and Teutonic races inhabiting that district.

Europe, then aboard a fast ship through the Mediterranean and the Bosporus Straits into the Black Sea, where battles raged on the Crimean peninsula.

The Russian military had sought refuge in the walled city after sweeping through the Ukraine, taking over Moldavia and Bessarabia, before attempting to conquer the Crimean peninsula.

Farther along the southeastern coast, the rugged Crimean Mountains rose high, a bastion against any forces of the Tsar that might come to rescue the Russians.

British and French forces were woefully underequipped, their uniforms not designed for the Crimean climate.

Next, the men began trudging across country toward the Crimean Mountains and the coast.

The tangled bureaucracy and confused ineptitude of the Crimean commanders would have made such a trick pathetically simple to achieve.

Although Captain Hatteras could have been legally declared lost at sea years before, she vowed not to make any such decision until Nemo returned from the Crimean War.

Every time he saw the dusky, exotic features of Auda, he could think only of Caroline, their stolen moments of love aboard the ship home from Africa, and in her own bedchambers on his last night before departing Paris by train to the Crimean front.

Treaty of Paris ended the Crimean War, soldiers continued to trickle home from the Black Sea battlefields.

France had changed greatly in the fourteen years since his companion had gone off to the Crimean War.

Earlier, before he had set out for the Crimean War, he had stood in front of this place in the dark of early morning.