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Crimea War

Crimean War
Part of the Ottoman wars in Europe and the Russo-Turkish wars
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Detail of Franz Roubaud's panoramic painting The Siege of Sevastopol (1904)
Date October 1853 – 30 March 1856
Location Crimean Peninsula, Caucasus, Balkans, Black Sea, Baltic Sea, White Sea, Far East
Result Allied victory; Treaty of Paris
Belligerents
(from 1855)
Commanders and leaders
Strength
Total: 975,850
  • 400,000 French
  • 300,000 Turkish
  • United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland 200,000 British
  • Kingdom of Sardinia 18,000 Sardinians
Total: 707,500
  • 700,000 Russians
  • 1,000 Greek legion
Casualties and losses

Total: 213,147–293,447 dead

 Ottoman Empire
Total dead est. 95,000–175,300

French Empire
Total dead: 95,000 of which:
10,240 killed in action;
20,000 died of wounds;
~ 60,000 died of disease

 British Empire
Total dead: 21,097 of which :
2,755 killed in action;
2,019 died of wounds;
16,000–16,323 died of disease

 Kingdom of Sardinia
2,050 died from all causes
Total casualties: 400,000+
including:
143,000 killed
80,000 wounded

Total: 213,147–293,447 dead

 Ottoman Empire
Total dead est. 95,000–175,300

French Empire
Total dead: 95,000 of which:
10,240 killed in action;
20,000 died of wounds;
~ 60,000 died of disease

 British Empire
Total dead: 21,097 of which :
2,755 killed in action;
2,019 died of wounds;
16,000–16,323 died of disease

The Crimean War (French: Guerre de Crimée; Russian: Крымская война, Krymskaya voina; Turkish: Kırım Savaşı, Sardinian: Gherra di Crimea) was a military conflict fought from October 1853 to March 1856 in which the Russian Empire lost to an alliance of France, Britain, the Ottoman Empire, and Sardinia. The immediate cause involved the rights of Christian minorities in the Holy Land, which was a part of the Ottoman Empire. The French promoted the rights of Roman Catholics, while Russia promoted those of the Eastern Orthodox Church. The longer-term causes involved the decline of the Ottoman Empire and the unwillingness of Britain and France to allow Russia to gain territory and power at Ottoman expense. It has widely been noted that the causes, in one case involving an argument over a key, have never revealed a "greater confusion of purpose", yet led to a war noted for its "notoriously incompetent international butchery."


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