Crimean War 1854-56 General Sir James Simpson, GCB, who served in tne Crimea as Chief of the Staff, and on the death of Lord Raglan as Commander in Chief until the fall of Sevastopol, when he returned home suffering from ill health.
Photograph by Roger Fenton
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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