The Crimean War

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Across
  1. 1. Rear-Admiral Lyons' Flagship
  2. 3. Commander of the Cavalry Division
  3. 4. lack of this hindered the British war effort
  4. 5. Key Russian naval base
  5. 7. Commander in Chief during Crimea
  6. 10. Iron Maiden single based on the Charge of the Light Brigade and inspired by Tennyson's poem
  7. 11. The British Army Command
  8. 13. The Times war correspondent
  9. 15. lack of this hindered the British war effort
  10. 16. established in 1856, embodied a more meritocratic approach in the army
  11. 18. 93rd Highlanders at Balaclava
  12. 19. First war photographer
  13. 20. Lucky British-French victory
  14. 21. Conveyor of vague orders
  15. 23. Improved conditions in Crimean hospitals
  16. 24. driving force behind Civil Service reform
Down
  1. 2. introduced a series of army reforms
  2. 6. Civil Service entrance exam
  3. 8. contributed to the lack of informed leadership at the top of the British army
  4. 9. Unsuccessful Russian attack
  5. 12. 'pious Victorian'
  6. 14. destroyed by the winter weather with key supplies on board
  7. 17. Commander of the Light Brigade
  8. 22. 'purveyor of alcohol'