Near the end of the Crimean War in 1855, British and French forces captured the Russian port city of Sevastopol after a yearlong siege but they were starving and could not find food to eat. They found a cat and named him Tom and noticed that, unlike his human counterparts, Tom appeared well fed. One day, they followed the cat who disappeared among the debris. When the soldiers cleared it away they discovered a cache of food the Russians had hidden at the beginning of the siege. Tom had saved the soldiers from starvation and returned to England with Deputy Assistant Commissary William Gair. Unfortunately Tom died just a year later. Gair stuffed and mounted the cat and he is now on display at London’s National Army Museum in London.
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