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  Battle of the Alma, 20th September 1854 

The Crimean War was fought by Britain, France and Turkey against Russia. On the 14th September a British-French force of 26,000 men landed northwest of the Crimean peninsula and began there advance on the Russian naval base of Sebastopol.