The Global Dimensions of Britain and France's Crimean War Naval Campaigns against Russia, 1854-1856.
Journal: eScholarship@McGill (McGill)
Year: 2011

The Crimean War was fought far outside its namesake peninsula in the Black Sea Region.Between 1854 and 1856, Anglo-French naval forces attacked the Russian Empire in the Baltic, White Sea, and Pacific.These campaigns receive little attention from modern historians, and much of the work that does exist relies on a limited number of English-language sources.This dissertation, on the other hand, is a comprehensive examination of these campaigns built on a foundation of primary documents written in