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Sitting of the Crimean Board of Inquiry, in the Hall of Chelsea Hospital, 1856. Creator: Smyth.

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Sitting of the Crimean Board of Inquiry, in the Hall of Chelsea Hospital, [London], 1856. Military investigation into the actions of certain British officers during the Crimean War. 'The inquiry...referred to in the Report presented by Colonel Tulloch and Sir John M'Neil, was commenced...before the Board of general officers, composed of Sir Alexander Woodford (President), Lord Beauchamp, General Rowan, Sir John Bell, General Peel, M.P., General Knollys, and General Sir George Berkeley...The Judge-Advocate, (the Right Hon. C. P. Villiers, M.P.) read the Royal warrant...[and] said that, as the cases would be taken in the order of military rank, Lord Cardigan's [led the Charge of the Light Brigade resulting in very high British casualties] would follow immediately upon Lord Lucan's; then would come Sir R. Airey's; and, lastly, Colonel Gordon's'. From "Illustrated London News", 1856.

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