Crimean War: Defensive Effort at Inkerman

November 5, 1854 - Allied forces win the Battle of Inkerman. Having been defeated at Alma and thwarted at Balaclava, Russian commander Prince Alexander Menshikov devised a plan to crush the British 2nd Division on the heights near Inkerman. Striking with overwhelming numbers from two directions, the Russians met intense resistance from Brig. Gen. John L. Pennefather's men. Defeating attacks from the west, the British next repelled assaults from the north as reinforcements reached the field. Counterattacking, British and French troops succeeded in driving off the Russians. The battle effectively broke the back of the Russian army and reduced the war to the siege of Sevastopol. Though the Russians possessed a massive numerical advantage, they failed in their objectives - what should they have done differently?