The History of the Telegraph

By the late 1840s, it was possible in parts of northern Europe to communicate relatively rapidly using the submarine telegraph cable and overland telegraph cables. In 1852, the British lay the first cable across the English Channel, which connects them up with Paris. By 1854, they have a cable all the way to Balaclava, which launches off across the Black Sea from Varna. This means if you pay enough, you can send your message back to London, but most of the things that are printed in the press in London from the Crimea are sent back in handwritten form. It's used by governments to interfere in the command chain. One French commander-in-chief resigned