![]() Gair brought Tom to England after the war. The British soldiers followed Tom into the city to see where he was getting such a good supply of mice and discovered a pile of rubble, which they cleared to reveal a storeroom full of food. ![]() British Lieutenant William Gair was searching a Russian cellar for food when he noticed a cat sitting on a pile of rubble, “covered in dust and grime, but serene.” He named the cat Tom and brought him to the officer’s shelter, where they noticed he remained well-fed. ![]() By the time the city fell, both sides were starving. The main battle was a year-long siege of the Russian city Sevastopol by British and French troops. National Army Museum London, Wikimedia Commons // CC BY-SA 4.0Īs the Ottoman Empire weakened in the 1850s, squabbles over territory led to the Crimean War. This taxidermy cat is believed to be Crimean Tom.
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