Battle of Alma


A modern interpretation of the Green Howards at the Battle of Alma in a painting by Peter Archer. In the foreground are the men of the regiment firing into the mass of greatcoated Russian while others of the 19th, along with Codrington’s Brigade, attack the Russian guns of the Great Redoubt in the middle distance.


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by Stephen Luscombe