History of War

SINOP 1853

“BRITAIN AND FRANCE REGARDED THE ATTACK AT SINOP AS UNJUSTIFIED, WHICH INCREASED ANTI-RUSSIAN SENTIMENT IN WESTERN EUROPE”

The Crimean War was a revolutionary conflict in terms of the evolution of military technology. Although it has since been characterised as taking place exclusively on the Crimean Peninsula, the war was geographically widespread with a significant naval component. Nowhere was this more emphasised than at the Battle of Sinop, which was fought

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