Battle of Floodfords

[Marshal Murat]

As Russia fought the combined Anglo-French-Turk armies during the Crimean War, there were multiple battles. The greatest was the battle of Floodfords.
Floodfords was the English name for a small town sitting on the road from the town of Czkankoy to Sevastopol. The Russian czar had moved an army down to break into Sevastopol. Leading the army was Alexander Bronislav of about 250,000 Russian conscripts, artillery and cavalry.
The Anglo-French army was of about 24,000 in strength, lead by General Lord Emmett and General Thibault Marcel. 2,400 Turks also accompanied the allied forces.
The town was small, only a couple houses and an Orthodox church. Sprawled around were fields of wheat and barley. Two large hills dominated the road from Floodford to Sevastopol. Then rolling around the town were smaller hills, shrubs covering most of them, large boulders scattered among the rocks.
Marching southward, the Russian column had split into three forces, the center being led by Bronislav, the eastern column lead by Ribokov Timaeus and the western led by Mikhael Domtropov.
Taking the main road, Bronislav had experianced massive traffic jams, and had slowed down to a crawl. The other two columns had lost all control, the armies bunches of soldiers moving southward.
Moving into the town, two British brigades of regulars and a Turkish company. The Turkish troops garrisoned in the town, two British regiments supporting the Turks, while the rest of the force was scattered on the northern fields.
As the Russians halted at night, a French light force had ridden to Floodford, taking on water from the well. Then moving north, they struck a sentry line of Russians, twelve miles north of Floodford. Retreating, the French reported to Marcel, who ordered his division into the area, his artillery taking position on the hills. Sending a letter to Lord Emmett, the messenger was lost among the hills, and the British didn't get the letter until late the next day.