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...were in monarchic Holy Alliance, they intrigued against each other, sabotaged each other's trade, angled for republican U. S. support. When Tsar Nicholas I proposed that they divide up Turkey in the middle of the last century, England fought Russia as Turkey's ally in the Crimean...
Every ten years saw a diplomatic somersault in the relations of the two countries. After the Crimean War, when the peace treaty forbade Russia a fleet on the Black Sea, the Tsar lined up with Germany. After the Franco-Prussian War, victorious Germany backed Russia in denouncing the treaty. But when England and Russia were at odds again over Turkey, Germany backed...
Protected by her insularity and guarded by a second-to-none Navy, Britain has long resisted conscription even in wartime. There were no drafts during the Napoleonic campaigns, the Crimean War or the Boer War. Only in 1916, nearly two years after the World War began, was the first British draft made...
...century ago the press of England, if not its Government, was made of tougher stuff. The Times was not the Government organ it is now but a muckraking, anti-aristocratic, jingoistic sheet. In 1854 it helped to push the country into the Crimean War, then ribbed the Government for all its blunders and published such thorough accounts of British strategy that the Russians were tipped off on it in advance. The Foreign Minister, Lord Clarendon, complained...
During the Crimean War, thousands of British soldiers quartered in the Mediterranean area were disabled by Malta fever. In 1886 Major General Sir David Bruce of the British Army Medical Corps discovered the guilty germ. In 1897 Bernhard L. F. Bang, a Danish veterinarian, discovered the germ which caused contagious abortion in cattle. In 1918 Bacteriologist Alice Catherine Evans of the U. S. Public Health Service showed that these two germs were closely related, and it was later proved that the disease originates in cattle, goats and swine, and is transmitted to man. Malta fever and Brucellosis are commonly known...