Chuck Bryant

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That's right.

Kind of a rare, detailed war battle episode.

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A little bit here and there.

Yeah, we usually don't, like, say, hey, let's dive into some specific battles of the Crimean War.

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So I guess we should probably set up a little bit about just what the Crimean War was.

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So the Crimean war was, uh, over the course of a few years from 1853 to 56, uh, it was in Europe, um, fought between Russia and Britain, France, and Turkey, which was part of the Ottoman empire.

Turkey was that is, and it was known for a lot of things.

There were some, you know, interesting people that came out of this ended up being super famous.

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And a lot of lives lost, but notably, most of the half a million lives lost, like maybe as many as 75 percent died from disease and things like that instead of on the battlefield.

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And it was the first big war covered by the press.

Notably, Tolstoy got his start there, you know, writing about the, you know, dispatches from the front, basically.

It's also, weirdly, where the the balaclava comes from that, you know, the what we in America might call a ski mask.