Thursday, August 5, 2010

Crimean War

Crimean War (1853-1856) was a battle that occurred between the Russian empire against the allies of France, the United Kingdom, the Kingdom of Sardinia, and Ottoman Empire. Most conflicts occurred in the Crimea peninsula, with other battles occurred in western Turkey and the Baltic sea. Crimean War is sometimes considered as the first modern conflicts that affect the war in the future. 

Krimean War was known by different names. In Russia known as the "Oriental War" (Russian: Восточная война, Vostochnaya Voina), and in Britain at that time is sometimes known as "Russia's War."


Crimean War famous for its logistical and tactical mistakes on both sides. However, it is considered to be war "modern" first, such as "introduced technical changes which affect the future governance of war," including the first tactical use of railways and telegraph. It is also famous for the work of Florence Nightingale, who pioneered modern nursing practice when caring for a wounded British soldier. 

Crimean War was also the first widely documented in photographs. 

Tension Pre-battle Conflict over the Holy Land 

Series of events that made France and England declared war on Russia on March 27 and March 28, 1854 coup can be traced to events in 1851 in France. Napoleon III sent an ambassador to the Ottoman Empire and tried to force the Ottomans to recognize France as a "ruler of a sovereign" in the Holy Land. Russia denies change in "authority" only in the Holy Land. Referring to the two agreements, namely the year 1757 and another in the year 1774, the Ottoman change their previous decision, to cancel the French treaty and insisting that Russia was the protector of Orthodox Christians in the Ottoman Empire. 

Napoleon III responded with a show of force, sending a fleet of Charlemagne to the Black Sea, which is in violation of the London Straits Convention. French show of strength combined with aggressive diplomacy and money, forcing the Sultan Abdülmecid I to accept the new agreement, admit the French and the Roman Catholic Church as the supreme Christian authority in the Holy Land with control over Christian holy places and have the rights to the Church of the Nativity, which was previously held by the Greek Orthodox Church. 

Tsar Nicholas I then sent an army corps to the 4th and 5th along the River Danube, and assign the Count Karl Nesselrode, his foreign minister, for talks with the Ottoman empire. Nesselrode to express it to Sir George Hamilton Seymour, the British Ambassador in St. Petersburg:

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