The Russian forces were stung at Coldstream Bridge (for the battle report see the earlier blog post here) but are now massing ready to lay siege to Berwick Upon Tweed…
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The Battle Continued Following on from the previous post the forces of the Tsar once more pressed forward with their attack Help arrived in the form of the Cossack force that had…
The forces of Britain and Russia clashed in their first major battle on May 29th 1895. As outlined in an earlier post the Russian force had been attempting to cross the River…
As the gallant defenders of Berwick held back the main Russian army against all the odds, the Tsarist Commander – Count Olovyanny Soldatik decided to send a column to the…
During late May the British 1st Army Corps continued to march North from York to urgently relieve the garrison at Berwick-Upon-Tweed. The small garrison had been holding out gallantly…
This is an infantryman of the Green Howard’s. Part of the First Army Corps that mustered at York to resist the Russian invasion of 1895. The Corps would soon march…
In early 1895 the British India Office received increasingly frequent reports of Russian troop mobilisation and movements to the north of Afghanistan. After many years of playing the Great Game…