Crimean War

Crimean War
Part of the Ottoman wars in Europe and the Russo-Turkish wars
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
French Empire (from 1854)  Ottoman Empire  British Empire (from 1854)  Sardinia (from 1855)	Russian Empire
Commanders and leaders
Napoléon III Jacques Leroy de Saint Arnaud Maréchal Canrobert Aimable Pélissier François Achille Bazaine Patrice de Mac-Mahon Abdülmecid I Omar Pasha İskender Pasha Çırpanlı Nadir Pasha Ismail Pasha Queen Victoria Earl of Aberdeen Viscount Palmerston Lord Raglan (Died) Sir James Simpson Sir William Codrington King Victor Emmanuel II Alfonso La Màrmora	Nicholas I Alexander II Prince Menshikov Pavel Nakhimov † Vasily Zavoyko Nikolay Muravyov Yevfimy Putyatin Vladimir Istomin † Count Tolstoy
Strength
Total: 975,850 400,000 French 300,000 Turkish 200,000 British 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 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."

...
Wikipedia