Record

Document Reference	Bu 48/32
Title	Copy letter from Sir A. Buchanan, St Petersburg, to 2nd Earl Granville [G. Leveson-Gower], Foreign Office, London; 16 Nov 1870.
Date	16 November 1870
Level	Piece
Content Description	Reports that he has heard a Russian gentleman say that the Emperor, on hearing of the surrender of the French army at Sedan, said "Thank God, Sebastopol is now avenged."
Term	treaties, Treaty of Paris 1856, Russian repudiation
	military campaigns, Crimean War 1853-6
	military campaigns, Franco-Prussian War 1870-1

Persons

Code	PersonName	Dates of existence
NA6192	Alexander II (1818-1881); Emperor of all the Russias; (succeeded 1855)	1818-1881
NA136	Buchanan; Andrew (1807-1882); 1st Baronet; diplomat	1807-1882
NA6137	Gower; Granville G. Leveson- (1815-1891); 2nd Earl Granville; diplomat M.P. statesman	1815-1891