The Crimean War

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