Battle of Balaclava
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The Battle of Balaclava, fought on 25 October 1854 during the Crimean War, was part of the Siege of Sevastopol (1854–55), an Allied attempt to capture the port and fortress of Sevastopol, Russia's principal naval base on the Black Sea. The engagement followed the earlier Allied victory in September at the Battle of the Alma, where the Russian General Menshikov had positioned his army in an attempt to stop the Allies progressing south towards their strategic goal. Alma was the first major encounter fought in the Crimean Peninsula since the Allied landings at Kalamita Bay on 14 September, and was a clear battlefield success; but a tardy pursuit by the Allies failed to gain a decisive victory, allowing the Russians to regroup, recover and prepare their defence.
1854
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| Type | Subtype | Date | Description | Notes | Source |
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| area | region | 1300 | Principality of Theodoro | Wikidata | |
| class | weapon | military dolphin | military marine mammal, dolphin | Wikidata | |
| event | armed conflict | 1434 | Siege of Cembalo | siege | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1475 | Siege of Mangup | siege | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1830 | Sevastopol plague uprising | rebellion | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1854 | Battle of Alma | Ottoman Empire, battle, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1854 | Siege of Sevastopol | Russian Empire, Ottoman Empire, Kingdom of Sardinia, Second French Empire, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, siege, naval battle | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1854 | Battle of Balaclava | battle, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Ottoman Empire | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1854 | Charge of the Light Brigade | battle, cavalry charge | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1854 | The Thin Red Line | Ottoman Empire, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, battle | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1854 | Battle of Inkerman | battle, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1855 | Battle of Malakoff | battle | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1855 | Battle of the Chernaya | Russian Empire, Second French Empire, Kingdom of Sardinia, Ottoman Empire, battle | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1855 | Battle of the Great Redan | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, battle | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1919 | Black Sea mutiny | Allies of the First World War, Ukrainian People's Republic, Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic, mutiny, occurrence | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1941 | Siege of Sevastopol | Nazi Germany, Soviet Union, Erich von Manstein, Kingdom of Italy, Independent State of Croatia, Ivan Yefimovich Petrov, Kingdom of Romania, siege, Gheorghe Avramescu, Gordey Levchenko, Filipp Oktyabrsky, Francesco Mimbelli | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 2014 | Capture of Belbek Airport | battle | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 2022 | Sevastopol attacks (2022–present) | bombardment, Armed Forces of Ukraine, chain of events | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 2022 | 2022 drone attack on the Sevastopol Naval Base | Armed Forces of Ukraine, naval battle, drone warfare | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 2023 | Sevastopol Shipyard attack | Armed Forces of Ukraine, military strike | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 2023 | missile strike on the Black Sea Fleet headquarters | bombardment, Armed Forces of Ukraine, missile strike | Wikidata |
| event | war | 988 | Rus'–Byzantine War | Byzantine Empire, Kievan Rus', war | Wikidata |
| object | watercraft | Giulio Cesare | Conte di Cavour-class battleship, dreadnought, battleship | Wikidata | |
| object | watercraft | Khmelnytskyi | Pauk-class corvette, corvette | Wikidata | |
| object | watercraft | SM UB-7 | Type UB I submarine, U-boat | Wikidata | |
| object | watercraft | 1969 | Smetlivyy | Project 01090 anti-submarine destroyer, guided missile destroyer | Wikidata |
| object | watercraft | 1985 | Konstantin Olshansky | tank landing ship, Ropucha-class landing ship | Wikidata |
| organisation | factory | 1938 | Sevastopol Shipyard | shipbuilding, ship repair, enterprise, shipyard | Wikidata |
| site | artillery battery | Coastal Mortar Battery No. 7 | artillery battery | Wikidata | |
| site | artillery battery | Matyukhin Battery | memorial, artillery battery | Wikidata | |
| site | fort | Asarane Burun | Isars of the mountainous Crimea, fortress | Wikidata | |
| site | fort | Battery 330 | fortress | Wikidata | |
| site | fort | Burun Kaia | tourist attraction, fortress | Wikidata | |
| site | fort | Cembalo | archaeological site, fortress | Wikidata | |
| site | fort | Citadel | fortress | Wikidata | |
| site | fort | fortress ensemble of Mangup | fortress | Wikidata | |
| site | fort | Isar Baga | tourist attraction, ruins, fortress | Wikidata | |
| site | fort | Merdven-Isar | fortress, tourist attraction, ruins | Wikidata | |
| site | fort | North Fort | fort | Wikidata | |
| site | fort | Pampuk-Kaya | fortress | Wikidata | |
| site | fort | Sandyk-Kaya | fortress | Wikidata | |
| site | fort | Suiren Fortress | fortress | Wikidata | |
| site | fort | Кокія-Ісар | ruins, fortress, tourist attraction | Wikidata | |
| site | fort | 1840 | Konstantin Battery | fortress | Wikidata |
| site | fort | 1845 | Alexander Battery | fort | Wikidata |
| site | fort | 1846 | Museum Mikhailovskaya battery | museum, fortress | Wikidata |
| site | fort | 1930 | Shore Battery No. 30 | fortress | Wikidata |
| site | fort | 2010 | Mikhailovsky ravelin | fortress | Wikidata |
| site | military base | 2003 | Naval museum complex Balaklava | naval museum, submarine base | Wikidata |
| site | museum | 1904 | Siege of Sevastopol | military museum, cultural property, cyclorama, museum | Wikidata |
| commons | image | Arrival of Fresh Troops at Balaclava, Crimea, 1855, 'The Officers' Portfolio of the Striking Reminiscences of the War, from Drawings, Photographs, and Notes, Taken on the Spot.' (1856). NAM 1004998 | Commons | ||
| commons | image | Painting „The Thin Red Line“ by Robert Gibb, 1881 | Commons | ||
| commons | image | The End of Balaclava Harbor - Attributed to Felice BeatoFXD | Commons | ||
| commons | image | Crimean War; carrying the wounded to Balaklava, Russia. Wood Wellcome V0015366 | Commons | ||
| commons | image | The End of Balaclava Harbor - Attributed to Felice Beato | Commons | ||
| commons | image | ALEXANDER(1857) British lines under fire | Commons | ||
| commons | image | Robert Gibb - The Thin Red LineFXD | Commons | ||
| commons | image | Cavalry camp near Balaklava 1855.3a34625r | Commons | ||
| commons | image | Cavalryatbalaklava2 | Commons | ||
| commons | image | Balaclava valley 2009 G1 | Commons | ||









