Crimean War (1853–1856)
Journal: The Encyclopedia of War
Year: 2011

Abstract An important European war between Russia and Turkey, which was joined by Great Britain, France, and Sardinia. The fighting eventually focused on the Allied campaign to take Sevastopol, the tsarist Black Sea naval bastion on the Crimean Peninsula. Russian defeat marked the end of its post‐Napoleonic primacy on the Continent.