✦ History

Crimean War

October 16, 1853 – March 30, 1856

Result Allied victory

Ended by Treaty of Paris (1856)

War in which the Ottoman Empire, Britain, France and Sardinia defeated Russia, mainly in the siege of Sevastopol in Crimea. It checked Russian expansion toward the Mediterranean.

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Battles 23

November 4, 1853
Battle of Oltenița Ottoman victory Battle of Oltenița Ömer Lütfi Pasha, Peter Andreivich Dannenberg
November 13, 1853
Battle of Akhaltsikhe (1853) Russian victory Akhaltsikhe
November 30, 1853
Battle of Sinop Russian victory Battle of Sinop Pavel Nakhimov, Osman Pasha, Adolphus Slade
December 1, 1853
Battle of Başgedikler Russian victory Battle of Başgedikler Vasili Bebutov, Zakhary Chavchavadze, Ivane Bagration of Mukhrani
December 31, 1853 – January 6, 1854
Battle of Cetate Inconclusive Cetate Ahmed Muhtar Pasha, Ömer Lütfi Pasha
1854 – 1856
Åland War Anglo-French victory Baltic Sea
April 22, 1854
1854 bombardment of Odessa Franco-British victory Odesa Dmitri Osten-Sacken, James Dundas
May 15 – June 23, 1854
Siege of Silistra (1854) Siege of Silistra (1854) Nicholas I of Russia, Mikhail Dmitrievich Gorchakov, Ivan Paskevich
August 6, 1854
Battle of Kurekdere Russian victory Battle of Kurekdere Vasili Bebutov, Richard Guyon, György Kmety
August 8–16, 1854
Battle of Bomarsund Anglo–French victory Battle of Bomarsund Charles Napier, Alexandre Ferdinand Parseval-Deschenes
August 18–28, 1854
Siege of Petropavlovsk Russian victory Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky Vasily Zavoyko, Yevfimiy Vasilyevich Putyatin
September 20, 1854
Battle of the Alma Allied victory Battle of the Alma Jacques Leroy de Saint Arnaud, Alexander Sergeyevich Menshikov, FitzRoy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan
October 17, 1854 – September 11, 1855
Siege of Sevastopol (1854–1855) Allied victory Siege of Sevastopol (1854–1855) Alexander II of Russia, Nicholas I of Russia, Alfonso Ferrero La Marmora
October 25, 1854
Battle of Balaclava Indecisive Battle of Balaclava FitzRoy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan, François Certain de Canrobert, Pavel Liprandi
November 5, 1854
Battle of Inkerman Anglo-French victory Battle of Inkerman Alexander Sergeyevich Menshikov, FitzRoy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan, François Certain de Canrobert
February 17, 1855
Battle of Eupatoria Ottoman victory Yevpatoriya Mikhail Dmitrievich Gorchakov, Ömer Lütfi Pasha
June 1 – November 29, 1855
Siege of Kars (1855) Russian victory Siege of Kars (1855) Richard Guyon, György Kmety, Sir William Williams, 1st Baronet, of Kars
June 1855 – August 1855
Siege of Taganrog Taganrog Armand Joseph Bruat, Yegor Tolstoy, Ivan Krasnov
August 9–10, 1855
Bombardment of Sveaborg Inconclusive Bombardment of Sveaborg Richard Saunders Dundas, Charles-Eugène Pénaud
August 16, 1855
Battle of the Chernaya Allied victory Battle of the Chernaya Alfonso Ferrero La Marmora, Pavel Liprandi, Osman Nuri Pasha
September 8, 1855
Battle of Malakoff French victory Battle of Malakoff Patrice de MacMahon, Aimable Pélissier, Mikhail Dmitrievich Gorchakov
September 8, 1855
Battle of the Great Redan Russian victory Sevastopol Mikhail Dmitrievich Gorchakov
October 17, 1855
Battle of Kinburn (1855) Anglo-French victory Battle of Kinburn (1855) Armand Joseph Bruat, Edmund Lyons, 1st Baron Lyons

Key commanders

Russia 18

Alexander II of Russia Emperor of Russia, Made peace at the Congress of Paris Nicholas I of Russia Emperor of Russia, Led Russia into the war; died in 1855 Alexander Sergeyevich Menshikov military commander Mikhail Dmitrievich Gorchakov military commander Nikolay Muravyov-Karsky military commander Ivan Paskevich military commander Mikhail Vorontsov military commander Pavel Nakhimov military commander Eduard Totleben military commander Pavel Liprandi military commander Peter Andreivich Dannenberg military commander Vasili Bebutov military commander Zakhary Chavchavadze military commander Ivane Bagration of Mukhrani military commander Vasily Zavoyko military commander Yevfimiy Vasilyevich Putyatin military commander Yegor Tolstoy military commander Ivan Krasnov military commander

Allies 30

George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen belligerent leader Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston belligerent leader Napoleon III Emperor of the French, Sent the largest allied army Abdülmecid I belligerent leader Alfonso Ferrero La Marmora belligerent leader Jacques Leroy de Saint Arnaud military commander Ömer Lütfi Pasha military commander Osman Pasha military commander Adolphus Slade military commander FitzRoy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan military commander François Certain de Canrobert military commander Aimable Pélissier military commander Edmund Lyons, 1st Baron Lyons military commander Charles George Gordon military commander Pierre Bosquet military commander Osman Nuri Pasha military commander Giovanni Durando military commander Richard Guyon military commander György Kmety military commander Charles Napier military commander Alexandre Ferdinand Parseval-Deschenes military commander Sir William Williams, 1st Baronet, of Kars military commander Christopher Teesdale military commander Gürcü Mehmed Vâsıf Pasha military commander Richard Saunders Dundas military commander Charles-Eugène Pénaud military commander Patrice de MacMahon military commander Armand Joseph Bruat military commander Edmund Moubray Lyons military commander Ahmed Muhtar Pasha military commander

Russian Empire 1

Dmitri Osten-Sacken military commander

United Kingdom 1

James Dundas military commander

Other 1

Florence Nightingale nurse, Led nursing at the Scutari military hospital