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    A candle light on the Crimean War

    Jul 09, 2021 3 minutes

    he Duke of Newcastle, Henry Pelham-Clinton, was the Secretary of War for the British Government from June 1854 but resigned over the Crimen War on 1 February 1855, just days after Florence Nightingale was writing a personal letter to him from Italy, dated 30 January 1855. No doubt by the time her letter arrived Pelham-Clinton’s successor, the Earl of Dalhousie, would have received it. Dalhousie was War Secretary throughout the concluding period of the Crimen War, and it was a responsibility he received much criticism for. He wasn’t the only one,

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