Crimean War: Facts & Related Content


Facts

Date October 4, 1853 - February 1, 1856
Location Crimean PeninsulaUkraine
Participants FranceOttoman EmpireSardiniaUnited KingdomRussian Empire
Context Russo-Turkish wars

Did You Know?

  • This was the first major war where civilian journalists and photographers such as William Howard Russell, Roger Fenton, and James Robertson were on the field sending information and photographs.
  • The trench warfare that would become so prominent in WWI was employed at Sevastapol.
  • Tolstoy's stark "Sevastopol Sketches" advanced his literary career; ten years later, he would write "War and Peace" based partially on his experiences in the Crimean War.

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Timeline

battle sites during the Crimean War (1853−56)
Battle of Alma
September 20, 1854
Siege of Sevastopol
Siege of Sevastopol
October 17, 1854 - September 11, 1855
Battle of Balaklava
Battle of Balaklava
October 25, 1854

Key People

Napoleon III
Napoleon III
emperor of France
Nicholas I
Nicholas I
tsar of Russia
Lord Palmerston
Lord Palmerston
prime minister of United Kingdom
“Lady with the Lamp”
Florence Nightingale
British nurse, statistician, and social reformer
Karl Vasilyevich, Count Nesselrode
Karl Vasilyevich, Count Nesselrode
Russian foreign minister
Aberdeen, detail of an oil painting by Sir Thomas Lawrence, 1828; in the collection of Viscount Cowdray
George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th earl of Aberdeen
prime minister of United Kingdom
Mary Seacole
Mary Seacole
Jamaican nurse
Viscount Hardinge, engraving by F. Holl after a portrait by Eden Upton Eddis
Henry Hardinge, 1st Viscount Hardinge
governor general of India
Certain Canrobert, undated engraving.
Certain Canrobert
French politician
Saint-Arnaud; detail from a lithograph by Antoine Maurin
Armand-Jacques Leroy de Saint-Arnaud
French military officer
Adolphe Niel
French military officer
Aleksandr Sergeyevich, Prince Menshikov
Russian military commander