Abstract

For Britain, the Crimean War began officially on 27 March 1854. By late April, soldiers were disembarking at Scutari, just a short ferry-ride across the Bosphorus from Constantinople, which had been chosen as the major staging-post for the French and British troops on their way to the battlefields of the Black Sea region and the Crimean peninsula. At the time, James Robertson was comfortably established in Constantinople, having been living and working in the city for about twelve years.

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