The 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 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
Ottoman Empire French Empire (from 1854)  British Empire (from 1854)  Kingdom of Sardinia (from 1855)	Russian Empire
Commanders and leaders
Abdulmejid I Omar Pasha İskender Pasha Çırpanlı Nadir Pasha Ismail Pasha Napoléon III Jacques Leroy de Saint Arnaud # Maréchal Canrobert Aimable Pélissier François Achille Bazaine Patrice de Mac-Mahon Queen Victoria Earl of Aberdeen Viscount Palmerston Lord Raglan # Lord Lyons Sir James Simpson Sir William Codrington 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: 603,132 165,000 309,268 107,864 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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