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Crimean War: Key Battles & Outcomes

The Crimean War was a conflict from 1853 to 1856 between the Russian Empire and an alliance of the French Empire, British Empire, Ottoman Empire, Sardinia, and Nassau. It was fought mainly on the Crimean Peninsula and was notable for logistical failures and tactical errors during land campaigns. The siege of Sevastopol lasted over a year before the city fell to the Allied forces in September 1855, dealing a major defeat to Russia. The 1856 Treaty of Paris that ended the war removed Russia's special position regarding the Ottoman Empire and limited naval forces in the Black Sea.

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Crimean War: Key Battles & Outcomes

The Crimean War was a conflict from 1853 to 1856 between the Russian Empire and an alliance of the French Empire, British Empire, Ottoman Empire, Sardinia, and Nassau. It was fought mainly on the Crimean Peninsula and was notable for logistical failures and tactical errors during land campaigns. The siege of Sevastopol lasted over a year before the city fell to the Allied forces in September 1855, dealing a major defeat to Russia. The 1856 Treaty of Paris that ended the war removed Russia's special position regarding the Ottoman Empire and limited naval forces in the Black Sea.

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CRIMEAN WAR

(OCTOBER 1853- FRBRUARY 1856)

MA. MARGARETH DE CHAVEZ


CRIMEAN WAR

• RUSSIAN WAR
• EASTERN WAR
• Восточная война, Vostochnaya Voina
CRIMEAN WAR
• was a conflict fought between the Russian
Empire and an alliance of the French Empire, the
British Empire, the Ottoman Empire, the kingdom
of Sardinia, and the Duchy of Nassau.
• is notorious for the logistical and tactical errors
during the land campaign.
• the first "modern" war as it "introduced technical
changes which affected the future course of
warfare,” -- railways and the telegraph.
AIM:
• attack the Russian naval base of Sevastopol
and destroy the fleet located within it.
• PROTECT THE FREE, DEFEND THE WEAK,
EMPIRE THREATENED, HUMANITY IMPERILED.
NICHOLAS I
• 1796–1855, czar of Russia (1825–
55)
• strove to serve his country's best
interests as he saw them, but his
methods were dictatorial,
paternalistic, and often inadequate.
• “autocracy, orthodoxy, and
nationality,”
BATTLES WITH THE WAR
•Battle of Sinop - 30 November 1853
•Siege of Petropavlovsk - 30–31 August 1854
•on the Pacific coast Battle of Alma - 20 September 1854
•Siege of Sevastopol - 25 September 1854 to 8 September 1855
•Battle of Balaclava - 25 October 1854
•Battle of Inkerman - 5 November 1854
•Battle of Eupatoria, 17 February 1855
•Battle of Chernaya River (aka "Traktir Bridge") - 25 August 1855
•Sea of Azoff naval campaign, May to November 1855
•Siege of Kars, June to 28 November 1855
Fall of SEBASTOPOL
• A major siege during the Crimean War, lasting
from September 1854 until September 1855.
• Allied troops (United Kingdom, French, and
Piedmont) landed in the Crimea and besieged the
city of Sebastopol which threatened the
Mediterranean. Before it could be encircled, the
Russian army moved to defend Sebastopol.
French and British engineers, from their base at
Balaclava, directed the building of siege lines to
the south of Sebastopol.
• Within a year, Sebastopol fell.
CAUSES OF CRIMEAN WAR
• THE 1815-1850 POST NAPOLEONIC WAR
PERIOD: increase in power of European
States, while Ottoman Empire gets weaker.
• 1850: Russia views itself as protector of Slavs
in the Balkan.
• Religious dispute results in Russia occupying
Moldavia and Wallachia.
• 1853: Turkey forced to declare war on Russia
CAUSES OF CRIMEAN WAR
• Cholera and Dysentery strike the Allies
• Russia withdraws from the occupied
provinces.
• Allied Commanders decide to attack the
Russians, before their force is wasted away
END OF WAR
• The city was heroically defended by the
Russians, and there were heavy Allied
casualties. The fall of Sebastopol resulted in
the defeat of Russia in the Crimean War, but
also resulted in an explosion of public interest
in this battle.
• Britain and France insisted that the Turks
make reforms in their insisted that the Turks
make reforms in their autocratic government.
END OF WAR
Treaty of Paris: AD 1856
• After the fall of Savastopol eventually the Russians abandon the
city, in September 1855. But the allied forces are in too weak a
condition to pursue them northwards into Russia. With little
achieved, but with another winter approaching, everyone is
inclined to peace. Talks begin in Paris in February 1856.

• The resulting treaty removes much of Russia's special position in


relation to Turkey. The joint European powers will from now on
safeguard both the Holy places and the Danubian principalities.
• The Straits Convention of 1841 is restored, but Turkey and Russia
alike are to be limited to minimal naval forces in the Black Sea.

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