The Crimean War’s First Shots in the Baltic, 1854
Journal: Palgrave Macmillan US eBooks
Year: 2015

Several months prior to the Crimean War's outbreak, British foreign secretary Lord Clarendon straightforwardly concluded that, "in the event of war between this Country and Russia, the Baltic must become a theatre of active operations."1 In fact, the entire Crimean conflict was precisely timed to facilitate a British plan to cripple the Russian warships they thought were still anchored off Revel (Tallinn), Estonia.2 Allied efforts against Russia's Black Sea stronghold at Sevastopol, on the other