Military personnel of the Crimean War

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 83. Chapters: British military personnel of the Crimean War, French military personnel of the Crimean War, Ottoman military personnel of the Crimean War, Russian military personnel of the Crimean War, Richard Francis Burton, John Hanning Speke, Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte II, Napoléon Joseph Charles Paul Bonaparte, François Achille Bazaine, Arthur Cumming, Patrice de Mac-Mahon, Duke of Magenta, Henri Rivière, Charles Rigault de Genouilly, Sébastien Lespès, Pavel Liprandi, Abel Douay, William Olpherts, Omar Pasha, Andrei Alexandrovich Popov, Walter Colquhoun Grant, Ivan Turchaninov, Ardant du Picq, Ivan Shestakov, Eduard Totleben, Thomas Arnold, Camille Armand Jules Marie, Prince de Polignac, Count Nikolay Adlerberg, Louis Jules Trochu, Mehmed Ali Pasha, Armand-Octave-Marie d'Allonville, Pavel Nakhimov, François Certain Canrobert, Charles Denis Bourbaki, Jean Danjou, Antoni Aleksander Ilinski, Yevfimy Putyatin, Michal Czajkowski, Adolphe Niel, Gorchakov, Ernest Courtot de Cissey, Charles Cousin-Montauban, Comte de Palikao, William L. McMillen, Pierre Philippe Denfert-Rochereau, Pierre Bosquet, Alexandre Ferdinand Parseval-Deschenes, Barthélémy Louis Joseph Lebrun, Ivan Krasnov, Pavel Maksutov, Auguste Regnaud de Saint-Jean d'Angély, Alexander Sergeyevich Menshikov, François-Edmond Pâris, Peter Andreivich Dannenberg, Jacques Leroy de Saint Arnaud, Dmitry Ivanovitch Sviatopolk-Mirskii, Elie Frédéric Forey, Aimable Pélissier, Pavel Pereleshin, Ivane Bagration of Mukhrani, Ferdinand-Alphonse Hamelin, Achille Baraguey d'Hilliers, Mikhail Lavrov, Bernard Jauréguiberry, Charles de Lorencez, Dmitry Petrovich Maksutov, Edmond Le Boeuf, Ahmad bey Javanshir, Louis d'Aurelle de Paladines, Joseph Vinoy, Balakishi Arablinski, Pierre Louis Charles de Failly, Abdülkerim Nadir Pasha, Fortescue Graham, Ivane Andronikashvili, Ahmed Muhtar Pasha, Ernest Doudart de Lagrée, Abel-Nicolas Bergasse Dupetit Thouars, Armand Joseph Bruat, Charles Auguste Frossard, Auguste-Alexandre Ducrot, Nikolay Krasnov, Avraamy Aslanbegov, Jacques Camou, Félix Douay, Jules Moch, Joseph Carl von Anrep, Vladimir Alexeyevich Kornilov, Justin Clinchant, Nikolay Mezentsov, Nikolai Chagin, Marie-Joseph-Camille Doré, Auguste Febvrier Despointes, Lazar Serebryakov, Mehmet Vasif Pasha Gürcü, Louis-Casimir Teyssier. Excerpt: Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton KCMG FRGS (19 March 1821 - 20 October 1890) was a British geographer, explorer, translator, writer, soldier, orientalist, cartographer, ethnologist, spy, linguist, poet, fencer and diplomat. He was known for his travels and explorations within Asia, Africa and the Americas as well as his extraordinary knowledge of languages and cultures. According to one count, he spoke 29 European, Asian and African languages. Burton's best-known achievements include travelling in disguise to Mecca, an unexpurgated translation of One Thousand and One Nights (also commonly called The Arabian Nights in English after Andrew Lang's abridgement), bringing the Kama Sutra to publication in English, and journeying with John Hanning Speke as the first Europeans led by Africa's greatest explorer guide, Sidi Mubarak Bombay, utilizing route information by Indian and Omani merchants who traded in the region, to visit the Great Lakes of Africa in search of the source of the Nile. Burton extensively criticized colonial policies (to the detriment of his career) in his works and letters. He was a prolific and erudite author and wrote numerous ...