"No Place for Women": A Graphic Narrative of Fanny Duberly's Crimean War
Year: 2021

Tensions between Britain and Russia began two hundred years prior to the Crimean conflict with Russia's territorial expansionism. Spreading west of the Caspian Sea into the Caucasus, and south into Ukraine and the Crimea, Sevastopol provided a warm-water port from which Russian fleets could sail into the eastern Mediterranean, which directly threatened British trade routes. 20 In 1852 a dispute between Russia and France over the guardianship of holy places in Jerusalem (then part of the Ottoman