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The Crimean War (1853-1856) was a global conflict fought mainly on the Crimean Peninsula between Russia and an alliance of the Ottoman Empire, France, the United Kingdom and Sardinia-Piedmont.
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It was sparked by a religious dispute
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and featured several different theaters of battle.
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After invading the Crimean Peninsula in the autumn of 1854, the Allied forces scored a victory at the Battle of the Alma and then besieged the vital Russian naval hub at Sevastopol for 11 months.
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The Crimean War[e] was fought from October 1853 to February 1856 between Russia and an ultimately victorious alliance of the Ottoman Empire, France, the United Kingdom and Sardinia-Piedmont.
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Crimean War , (October 1853–February 1856), war fought mainly on the Crimean Peninsula between the Russians and the British , French , and Ottoman Turkish, with support from January 1855 by the army of Sardinia-Piedmont .
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The Crimean War (1854-56) was fought by an alliance of Britain, France, Turkey and Sardinia against Russia. It was the only major European conflict the Army engaged in between 1816 and 1914.
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The Crimean War caused a mass exodus of Crimean Tatars towards the Ottoman lands, resulting in massive depopulation in the peninsula. Characteristics of the war. The war became infamously known…
Crimean War - New World Encyclopedia
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