Timeline October 1854

Events in October 1854 3

• 1854 Siege of Sevastopol begins Allied forces besiege the Russian Black Sea fleet base Allied armies began besieging the fortified Russian naval port of Sevastopol in Crimea. The siege would become the central and longest operation of the Crimean War.
• 1854 Florence Nightingale departs for the Crimean War Nursing reform begins at Scutari military hospital Florence Nightingale left London with a team of nurses to care for wounded British soldiers at the military hospital in Scutari, near Constantinople. Her work improving sanitation and nursing care sharply reduced mortality and established modern nursing practice.
• 1854 Battle of Balaclava Charge of the Light Brigade A Russian attempt to break the Allied siege lines at Balaclava led to heavy fighting, including the disastrous Charge of the Light Brigade into well-defended Russian artillery. The charge became one of the most famous episodes of the Crimean War after it was immortalised in verse by Alfred, Lord Tennyson.