Crimean War

Crimean War
Part of the Ottoman wars in Europe and the Russo-Turkish Wars
Attack on the Malakoff, by William Simpson
Date 16 October 1853 – 30 March 1856 (1853-10-16 – 1856-03-30) (2 years, 5 months and 2 weeks) Location Crimea, North Caucasus, Balkans, Black Sea, Baltic Sea, White Sea, Far East Result Allied victory Territorial changes Russia loses the Danube Delta and Southern Bessarabia.
Belligerents
Ottoman Empire  France[a]  United Kingdom[a] Sardinia[b]	Russia  Greece[c]
Commanders and leaders
Abdulmejid I Omar Pasha Napoléon III J. L. de Saint-Arnaud George Hamilton-Gordon Henry John Temple FitzRoy Somerset Alfonso La Marmora	Nicholas I Alexander II Prince Menshikov Prince Gorchakov Pavel Nakhimov †
Strength
Total: 673,900 235,568[1] 309,268[2] 97,864[2] 21,000[2]	Total: 889,000[2] 888,000 mobilised 324,478 deployed
Casualties and losses
Total: 165,363–223,000[3] dead 45,770 combat deaths 119,593 non-combat deaths 45,400 dead[2] 20,900 combat deaths 24,500 non-combat deaths 95,615 dead[2] 20,240 combat deaths 75,375 non-combat deaths 22,182 dead[2] 4,602 combat deaths 17,580 non-combat deaths 2,166 dead[2] 28 combat deaths 2,138 non-combat deaths	Total: 450,015 dead[4][2][5] 73,125 combat deaths 376,890 non-combat deaths
Casualties include death by disease. In all cases, death by disease exceeded the sum of "killed in action" or "died of wounds".

The Crimean War (1853–1856), also called the Eastern War (Russian: Восточная война), was fought between the Russian Empire against the French Empire, the United Kingdom, the Kingdom of Sardinia and the Ottoman Empire. Most of the fighting, including the Battle of Balaclava, happened in Crimea, but some of it was what is now western Turkey and around the Baltic Sea.

The Crimean War is sometimes called the first "modern" war since its weaponry and tactics were used for the first time and affected all later wars.^[6] It was also the first war to use a telegraph to give information to a newspaper quickly.^[7]
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1. ↑ Badem 2010, p. 180. sfn error: no target: CITEREFBadem2010 (help)
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8} Clodfelter 2017, p. 180. sfn error: no target: CITEREFClodfelter2017 (help)
3. ↑ Зайончковский А. М. Восточная война 1853—1856. — СПб.: Полигон, 2002. — ISBN 5-89173-159-2
4. ↑ Figes 2010, p. 489. sfn error: no target: CITEREFFiges2010 (help)
5. ↑ Mara Kozelsky, "The Crimean War, 1853–56." Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History 13.4 (2012): 903–917 online.
6. ↑ Royle. Preface
7. ↑ "The Crimean War: The war that made Britain 'great' - Telegraph". telegraph.co.uk. Retrieved November 17, 2010.