Crimean War 1854-56 Scene at Headquarters, from left to right, Lt. Col. George Latham Thomson; Major Charles Carew de Morel; Lt. Col. Robert Blane, CB; Major General I.B. Estcourt; Major John A. Vesey Kirkland; and Col. the Hon. William Lygon Pakenham, CB.
Photograph by Fenton Roger
Crimean War
The Crimean War was fought between the Russian Empire and an alliance of the Ottoman Empire, the Second French Empire, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and the Kingdom of Sardinia-Piedmont from October 1853 to February 1856. Geopolitical causes of the war included the "Eastern question", expansion of Imperial Russia in the preceding Russo-Turkish wars, and the British and French preference to preserve the Ottoman Empire to maintain the balance of power in the Concert of Europe.
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