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Crimean War

A mid-19th century conflict between Russia and an alliance of the Ottoman Empire, France, the United Kingdom, and Sardinia, notable for modern technologies and reforms.

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Hostilities ceased with the Treaty of Paris, signed on 30 March 1856; this agreement prohibited Russia from stationing warships on the Black Sea.[1]

Life and work

Britain and France joined the war on the Ottoman side in March 1854 after the Ottoman squadron was annihilated at Sinop.[2] Russia sued for peace in March 1856, diplomatically isolated and facing potential invasion.[1] In September 1855, a French attack on the Malakoff redoubt led to the capture of Sevastopol.[1]

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The historian A. J. P. Taylor argued the war resulted from the interacting fears of the major players, not from aggression.[3] Orlando Figes claimed British motives included promoting free-trade interests, which may have been damaging to the Ottoman Empire.[4] British exports to the Ottoman Empire increased nearly threefold from 1840 to 1851, making it financially important for Britain to prevent Ottoman collapse.[5] Karl Marx, writing for the New-York Tribune around 1853, saw the war as a conflict between western democratic ideals and Russian absolutism.[6]

References

  1. Wikipedia, "Crimean War" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Figes 2010, p. 489 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  2. Wikipedia, "Crimean War" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Kerr, "The Crimean War", Mcmillan, 2000, p. 17; "Crimean War", 27 September 2020 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  3. Wikipedia, "Crimean War" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Matthew Smith Anderson, The Eastern Question, 1774–1923: A Study in International Relations. p. 37. (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  4. Wikipedia, "Crimean War" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Figes 2011, p. 32 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  5. Wikipedia, "Crimean War" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Badem 2010, p. 280 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  6. Wikipedia, "Crimean War" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "The Reader's Companion to Military History", Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade & Reference Publishers, 2001; "The Reader's Companion to Military History", Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade & Reference Publishers, 2001; Kissin, "War and the Marxists: Socialist Theory and Practice in Capitalist Wars, 1848–1918", Routledge, 2020 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org

Each numbered sentence above was checked against the source it cites before publication. Sentences citing Wikipedia adapt text from the English Wikipedia article Crimean War (contributors), used under CC BY-SA 4.0; this entry is available under the same licence. Other sources were used for facts only; no text or images are copied from them.

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