Crimean War was a conflict fought between 1853 and 1856, which pitted Russia against a coalition of states formed by Great Britain, France, the Ottoman Empire and the Kingdom of Sardinia; The trigger for the war was control of the Balkan peninsula, the eastern Mediterranean and the Black Sea. The origins of the conflict must be identified in the great geopolitical upheaval triggered by the crisis of the Turkish empire, by Russia’s expansionist initiatives aimed at gaining access to the Mediterranean, and by the aspirations of France and Great Britain to exercise naval and land hegemony in the North African, […]
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