Wars

Crimean War

Modern, Russian Empire and an Ottoman-French-British Coalition

Citation Formats

General Reference

War and Military Atlas. "Crimean War." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://dev-military.interactiveatlas.org/wars/crimean-war.

APA Style

War and Military Atlas. (n.d.). Crimean War. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://dev-military.interactiveatlas.org/wars/crimean-war

BibTeX

@misc{warandmilitaryatlas-crimean-war,
  author = {War and Military Atlas},
  title = {Crimean War},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://dev-military.interactiveatlas.org/wars/crimean-war},
  note = {Accessed August 30, 2026}
}

The Crimean War (1853 to 1856) pitted the Russian Empire against an alliance of the Ottoman Empire, the French Empire, the United Kingdom and the Kingdom of Sardinia, fought largely on the Crimean Peninsula. It is remembered for the prolonged Siege of Sevastopol, the Charge of the Light Brigade and Florence Nightingale's nursing reforms, which followed from the war's notoriously poor medical care. Estimates for total deaths, overwhelmingly from disease rather than combat, range from under 500,000 to roughly 750,000 or more across all combatant armies, and figures are not agreed among historians.

Facts

Start Year

1853 1

End Year

1856 1

Combatants

The Russian Empire against an alliance of the Ottoman Empire, the French Empire, the United Kingdom and the Kingdom of Sardinia 1

Outcome

Allied victory; the Treaty of Paris (1856) neutralized the Black Sea to Russian and Ottoman warships 1

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