Russell's dispatches bring down the government
1855 · Event
William Howard Russell of The Times — the first modern war correspondent — reports the army freezing, starving and dying of cholera outside Sevastopol while its supplies rot at Balaclava. The public fury his dispatches raise helps force Aberdeen's government from office.
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