Ref: A4458
- £375.00
CRIMEA WAR. 1855 envelope to Paris with a pair of 20c tied by a rectangle of dots with ‘ACCG’ in the centre. Alongside is an ARMEE D’ORIENT QUARTIER Gal. 9 FEV 55 cancel. A Paris 22 FEV 55 arrival cancel is on the back. The whole force sent by France to the Black Sea was 309,268 soldiers. 70,000 were killed or died in the hospitals, or were otherwise missing. It is considered that 93,000 were wounded and survived. This compares to 22,000 British deaths.
