ID: 901001646 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ia/901001646	Record Type: Event/Narrative

	Battle of Balaklava (European history, 1854)

Note: Indecisive military engagement of the Crimean War in which the Russians failed to capture Balaklava, the Black Sea supply port of the British, French, and Turkish forces in the southern Crimea, though the British lost control of their best supply road connecting Balaklava with the heights above Sevastopol. The event was the inspiration of Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s Charge of the Light Brigade.

Display Date: October 25, 1854

Names:

	Battle of Balaklava (European history, 1854) (preferred,English-P,D,P)
	Battle of Balaclava (European history, 1854) (English,U,P)

Hierarchical Position:

		Named Events (P)
		....<European history> (P)
		........Crimean War (Eurasian history, 1853-1856) (I)
		............Battle of Balaklava (European history, 1854) (P)

Other Relationships:

	located in .... Balaklava
	.....(Crimea Oblast, Ukraine, Europe) (TGN)

	role/characteristic is .... battle
	.....(armed conflicts, events (activities), Events (hierarchy name)) (AAT)

	belligerent was .... Rússia
	.....(Asia) (TGN)

	belligerent was .... Great Britain
	.....(Europe) (TGN)

Sources:

	Battle of Balaklava (European history, 1854)
	................Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-)
	Battle of Balaclava (European history, 1854)
	................Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-)

Iconography Record Sources:

	................ Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-)
	................ Langer, Encyclopedia of World History (1980)