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The Crimean War

Crimean War
Part of the Ottoman wars in Europe and the Russo-Turkish wars
Panorama dentro.JPG
Detail of Franz Roubaud's panoramic painting The Siege of Sevastopol (1904)
Date 16 October 1853 – 30 March 1856 (1853-10-16 – 1856-03-30)
Location Crimean Peninsula, Caucasus, Balkans, Black Sea, Baltic Sea, White Sea, Far East
Result Allied victory; Treaty of Paris
Belligerents
Commanders and leaders
Strength
Total: 603,132
  • 165,000
  • 309,268
  • United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland 107,864
  • Kingdom of Sardinia 21,000
Total: 889,000

  • 888,000 mobilized
    324,478 deployed
  • 1,000 Greek legion
Casualties and losses

223,513
 Ottoman Empire
45,400
10,100 killed in action
10,800 died of wounds
24,500 died of disease French Empire
135,485
8,490 killed in action;
11,750 died of wounds;
75,375 died of disease
39,870 wounded
 British Empire
40,462
2,755 killed in action
1,847 died of wounds
17,580 died of disease
18,280 wounded

 Kingdom of Sardinia
2,166
28 killed in action
2,138 died of disease
530,125
35,671 killed in action
37,454 died of wounds
377,000 died from non-combat causes
80,000 wounded

223,513
 Ottoman Empire
45,400
10,100 killed in action
10,800 died of wounds
24,500 died of disease French Empire
135,485
8,490 killed in action;
11,750 died of wounds;
75,375 died of disease
39,870 wounded
 British Empire
40,462
2,755 killed in action
1,847 died of wounds
17,580 died of disease
18,280 wounded

The Crimean War (French: Guerre de Crimée; Russian: Кры́мская война́ Krymskaya voina or Russian: Восто́чная война́ Vostochnaya voina ("Eastern War"); Turkish: Kırım Savaşı) was a military conflict fought from October 1853 to February 1856 in which the Russian Empire lost to an alliance of the Ottoman Empire, France, Britain 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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