Category: Crimean War

Categories: Wars 1800-1899

This is a high level category. Please do not add individual profiles. Add profiles to the narrowest category possible. See How to Categorize.

Main Category for the Crimean War 1853-1856

The Crimean War (French: Guerre de Crimée; Russian: Кры́мская война́ Krymskaya voina or Восто́чная война́ Vostochnaya voina ("Eastern War"); Turkish: Kırım Savaşı; Italian: Guerra di Crimea; English: Crimean War) 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".


Allied Factions	Russian Empire & Co.
Ottoman Empire	Russian Empire
French Empire	Bulgaria
British Empire	Principality of Mingrelia (vassal)
Kingdom of Sardinia	Kingdom of Greece
Caucasian Imamate
Circassia
Abkhazia
Egypt Eyalet
Beylik of Tunis

See:Wikipedia:Crimean_War

This category is managed by the Military and War Project in association with the Categorization Project. For assistance with this or related categories ask in G2G making sure to tag your question with both categorization and Military_and_War.

[hide subcategories]