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The ___MASK49___ ('; Modern Turkish : ' or '), also known as the Turkish Empire , Ottoman ___MASK20___ , was an empire founded at the end of the thirteenth century in northwestern Anatolia in the vicinity of Bilecik and Söüt by the Oghuz Turkish tribal leader Osman . After 1354 , the Ottomans crossed into Europe , and with the conquest of the Balkans the Ottoman Beylik was transformed into a transcontinental empire . The Ottomans ended the Byzantine Empire with the 1453 conquest of ___MASK13___ by Mehmed the Conqueror . ___MASK41___ Oblast ( translit . " Khersons  ka oblast "; also referred to as Khersonshchyna  "") is an oblast ( province ) in southern Ukraine , just north of Crimea . Its administrative center is ___MASK41___ . The area of the region is 28 , 461 km² , its population ( as of 1 January 2012 ) is 1 , 083 , 367 . The Charge of the Light Brigade was a charge of British light cavalry led by Lord ___MASK88___ against Russian forces during the ___MASK72___ on 25 October 1854 , in the Crimean War . Lord Raglan , overall commander of the British forces , had intended to send the Light Brigade to prevent the Russians removing captured guns from overrun Turkish positions , a task well - suited to light cavalry . However , due to miscommunication in the chain of command , the Light Brigade was instead sent on a frontal assault against a different artillery battery , one well - prepared with excellent fields of defensive fire . ___MASK55___ , also officially known as the ___MASK43___ , was a state that existed from 1721 until it was overthrown by the short - lived liberal February Revolution in 1917 . One of the largest empires in world history , stretching over three continents , the ___MASK43___ was surpassed in landmass only by the British and Mongol empires . The rise of the ___MASK43___ happened in association with the decline of neighboring rival powers : the Swedish Empire , the Polish  Lithuanian Commonwealth , Persia and the ___MASK49___ . It played a major role in 1812  14 in defeating ___MASK58___ ' s ambitions to control Europe , and expanded to the west and south . The ___MASK72___ , fought on 25 October 1854 during the Crimean War , was part of Siege of Sevastopol ( 1854  1855 ) to capture the port and fortress of Sevastopol , Russia ' s principal naval base on the Black Sea . The engagement followed the earlier Allied victory in September at the Battle of the Alma , where the Russian General Menshikov had positioned his army in an attempt to stop the Allies progressing south towards their strategic goal . Alma was the first major encounter fought in the Crimea since the Allied landings at Kalamita Bay on 14 September , and was a clear battlefield success ; but a tardy pursuit by the Allies failed to gain a decisive victory , allowing the Russians to regroup , recover and prepare their defence . The ___MASK70___ (" Krymskiy poluostrov ;" , " Kryms ' ky pivostriv "), also known simply as Crimea ( " Krym " " Krym "), is a major land mass on the northern coast of the Black ___MASK53___ that is almost completely surrounded by both the Black ___MASK53___ and the smaller ___MASK71___ to the northeast . The peninsula is located south of the Ukrainian region of Kherson and west of the Russian region of Kuban . It is connected to Kherson Oblast by the Isthmus of Perekop and is separated from Kuban by the Strait of Kerch . The Arabat Spit is located to the northeast , a narrow strip of land that separates a system of lagoons named Sivash from the ___MASK71___ . The ___MASK21___ ( translit . " Perekops ' kyy pereshyyok " translit . " Perekopskiy peresheek " ) is the narrow , wide strip of land that connects the ___MASK70___ to the mainland of Ukraine . The isthmus is located between the Black ___MASK53___ to the west and the Sivash to the east . The isthmus takes its name from the Tatar fortress of Perekop . Light cavalry often called Light Horse comprises lightly armed and lightly armoured troops mounted on horses , as opposed to heavy cavalry , where the riders ( and sometimes the horses ) are heavily armored . The missions of the light cavalry were primarily reconnaissance , screening , skirmishing , raiding , and ___MASK28___ importantly , communications , and were usually armed with spears , swords , bows and later carbines . Artillery is a class of large military weapons built to fire munitions far beyond the range and power of infantry ' s small arms . Early artillery development focused on the ability to breach fortifications , and led to heavy , fairly immobile siege engines . As technology improved , lighter , more ___MASK6___ field artillery developed for battlefield use . This development continues today ; modern self - propelled artillery vehicles are highly ___MASK6___ weapons of great versatility providing the largest share of an army ' s total firepower . The Black ___MASK53___ is a body of water between Eastern Europe and Western ___MASK94___ , bounded by Bulgaria , Georgia , Romania , Russia , Turkey , and Ukraine . It is supplied by a number of major rivers , such as the Danube , Dnieper , Rioni , Southern Bug , and Dniester . The Black ___MASK53___ has an area of ( not including the ___MASK71___ ), a maximum depth of , and a volume of . It is constrained by the Pontic Mountains to the south and by the Caucasus Mountains to the east , and features a wide shelf to the northwest . The longest east - west extent is about . The Crimean War was a military conflict fought from October 1853 to ___MASK74___ 1856 in which the ___MASK43___ lost to an ___MASK87___ of France , Britain , the Ottoman Empire , and Sardinia . The immediate cause involved the rights of Christian minorities in the ___MASK2___ , which was a part of the Ottoman Empire . The French promoted the rights of Roman Catholics , while Russia promoted those of the Eastern Orthodox Church . The longer - term causes involved the decline of the Ottoman Empire and the unwillingness of Britain and France to allow Russia to gain territory and power at Ottoman expense . It has widely been noted that the causes , in one case involving an argument over a key , have never revealed a " greater confusion of purpose ", yet led to a war noted for its " notoriously incompetent international butchery ." The ___MASK71___ (" Azovs ' ke more / Azovke more ") is a sea in Eastern Europe . To the south it is linked by the narrow ( about ) Strait of Kerch to the Black Sea , and it is sometimes regarded as a northern extension of the Black Sea . The sea is bounded in the north by mainland Ukraine , in the east by Russia , and in the west by the Crimean Peninsula . The Don and Kuban are the major rivers that flow into it . The ___MASK71___ is the shallowest sea in the world , with the depth varying between . There is a constant outflow of water from the ___MASK71___ to the Black Sea . Perekop is an urban - type settlement located on the Perekop Isthmus connecting the ___MASK70___ to the Ukrainian mainland . It is known for the Fortress Or Qapi that served as the gateway to Crimea . The village currently is part of Armyansk Municipality . Population : The ___MASK34___ of Great Britain and Northern ___MASK25___ , commonly known as the ___MASK34___ ( UK ) or Britain , is a sovereign country in western Europe . Lying off the north - western coast of the European mainland , it includes the island of Great Britain ( the name of which is also loosely applied to the whole country ), the north - eastern part of the island of ___MASK25___ , and many smaller islands . Northern ___MASK25___ is the only part of the UK that shares a land border with another sovereign statethe Republic of ___MASK25___ . Apart from this land border , the UK is surrounded by the ___MASK23___ , with the North Sea to its east , the English Channel to its south and the Celtic Sea to its south - south - west , giving it the 12th - longest coastline in the world . The Irish Sea lies between Great Britain and ___MASK25___ . With an area of , the UK is the 78th - largest sovereign state in the world and the 11th - largest in Europe . It is also the 21st - most populous country , with an estimated 65 . 1 million inhabitants . Together , this makes it the fourth most densely populated country in the European Union . The Arabat Spit or Arabat ___MASK68___ is a spit ( narrow strip of land ) which separates a large , shallow and very salty system of lagoons named Syvash from the ___MASK71___ . The spit is located between the Henichesk Strait to the north and the north - eastern shores of Crimea to the south . The military tactic of frontal assault is a direct , hostile movement of forces toward the ___MASK100___ of an enemy force ( as compared to the flanks or rear of the enemy ). By targeting the enemy ' s ___MASK100___ , the attackers are subjecting themselves to the maximum defensive power of the enemy . It is often a commander ' s last resort when he has run out of tactical options . The ___MASK2___ ( Hebrew : , ; Arabic : ) is an area roughly located between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea that also includes the Eastern Bank of the Jordan River . Traditionally , it is synonymous with both the biblical Land of Israel and historical Palestine . The term usually refers to a territory roughly corresponding to the modern State of Israel , the Palestinian territories , western Jordan , and parts of southern Lebanon and southwestern Syria . It is considered holy by Jews , Christians , and Muslims . Louis Edward Nolan ( 4 January 1818 -- 25 October 1854 ) was a British Army officer and cavalry tactician best known for his role and death in the Charge of the Light Brigade during the Crimean War . Born to a minor diplomatic official and his wife , Nolan was educated at the Austrian Inhaber Pioneer School at Tulln , where he was noted as an enthusiastic horseman and military theorist . After early graduation he was commissioned as a subaltern in the 10th Austrian Hussar regiment , serving in Austria , Hungary and on the Polish frontier , where he again became known for his horsemanship and was promoted to senior lieutenant . Due to the nepotism inherent in the Austro - Hungarian armed forces , Nolan succeeded in transferring to the British Army as a Cornet in the 15th Light Dragoons . Deployed in India , Nolan was eventually made the regimental riding master and an aide - de - camp to General George Berkeley , commander - in - chief in Madras , accompanying him on horse trials to evaluate the use of geldings as cavalry mounts rather than stallions , and was made a Captain in 1850 . Returning to Great Britain in 1851 , he toured continental Europe and wrote two books on horsemanship and cavalry theory , the second of which , Cavalry : Its History and Tactics , was universally acclaimed and led to the adoption of a Nolan - designed saddle by the British Army . A trusted voice on cavalry matters , Nolan was dispatched to the Middle East in the early days of the Crimean War to hunt for appropriate mounts . After returning he was attached to the staff of General Richard Airey , and in this role delivered the order that led to the Charge of the Light Brigade . 40 percent of the Light Brigade ' s soldiers were killed , wounded , captured or rendered unfit for service , including Nolan , who was the first casualty of the Charge . Contemporary accounts blamed Nolan for failing to properly communicate the order , either accidentally or deliberately , while some modern historians apportion the blame to not only Nolan but also Lord Raglan , commander of the British forces in the Crimea , and the cavalry commander Lord Lucan . ___MASK67___ is a geographic region of Southern ___MASK55___ surrounding the ___MASK67___ River , on the Black ___MASK53___ between the Don Steppe , the Volga Delta and the Caucasus , and separated from the Crimean Peninsula to the west by the Kerch Strait . Krasnodar Krai is often referred to as " ___MASK67___ ", both officially and unofficially , although the term is not exclusive to the krai and accommodates the republics of Adygea , Karachay  Cherkessia , and parts of Stavropol Krai . The British Army is the principal land warfare force of the ___MASK34___ . The force was initially administered by the War Office from London , which in 1964 was subsumed into the Ministry of Defence . The professional head of the British Army is the Chief of the General Staff . ___MASK24___ (, Old East Slavic :  , , , Ancient Greek : " Pantikapaion ") is a city of regional significance on the ___MASK24___ Peninsula in the east of the Crimea . Population :