AN UNHOLY PATH TO WAR
“BRITISH AND FRENCH WARSHIPS NEXT ENTERED THE BLACK SEA IN JANUARY 1854 TO OFFER PROTECTION TO TURKISH TRANSPORTS. TENSIONS CONTINUED TO INCREASE”
Superficially, the causes of the Crimean War lay in the ongoing disagreements between the Orthodox, Armenian and Catholic churches over the holy places in Palestine. Its real roots, however, went deeper into the decline of the Ottoman Empire: the ‘Sick Man of Europe’, which imperialist Russia looked to exploit. This in turn
