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Throughout the history of the world men have gone into
war for many reasons, but surely for non so foolish as the ostensible
cause of the campaign in the Crimea. A monkish squabble over the custody
of the keys to a church in the Holy Land led to the deaths of many
thousands of brave men and living misery for the remainder, who
soldiered in conditions unequalled until the bloody quagmires of World
War I. Read more about the British army in the Crimea war in
Tradition
Magazine no. 37 And about the Russian in the Crimean War in
Tradition
Magazine no. 44
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