Editing Battle of the Alma (section)

==Aftermath==
[[File:Battle of the Alma, Captured Russian Artillery - Black and White.png|thumb|Engraving of a piece of Russian artillery captured by British forces following the conclusion of the battle probably from a contemporary newspaper]]
The battle cost the French 1,600 casualties, the British 2,000, the Ottomans 503, and the Russians some 5,000. The British took two days to clear the battlefield of their wounded. Without any medical supplies, they had to requisition the commissariat carts to remove the wounded from the battlefield.{{sfnp|Figes|2011|p=218}} As the Russian army had to abandon its wounded on the battlefield, many of the injured limped back to Sevastopol over the course of the next days.{{sfnp|Figes|2011|p=220}} Some 1600 wounded had to wait several days before they could sail to the [[Scutari Barracks|Scutari hospital]] in Constantinople.{{sfnp|Seaton|1977|pp=96-97}} The allied commanders had no idea of the heavy losses on the Russian side. The necessity of collecting equipment scattered through the battlefield delayed the pursuit, and the lack of cavalry ruled out any possibility of an immediate chase of the Russians.{{sfnp|Figes|2011|p=224}}

The French commemorated the battle with the naming of the [[Pont de l'Alma]] in [[Paris]]. The British gave the name Alma to a small settlement in [[North Otago]] and to [[Alma River (New Zealand)|a river]] in [[Marlborough Region|Marlborough]] (both in New Zealand). In the [[New Brunswick|Province of New Brunswick]], Canada, The Parish of Alma was created surrounding the [[Alma, New Brunswick|Village of Alma]] in 1856, commemorating the then-recent Battle of Alma. [[Alma, Nova Scotia]], [[Alma, Ontario]], [[Alma, Michigan]], and [[Alma, Quebec]] are named after the battle.