The Crimean War by Alan Palmer
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Overview: During the hundred years which separate the first abdication of Napoleon from the battles ofTannenberg and the Marne there were, in all, fifteen wars between the nations of Europe, great or small. Their average length, however, was no more than eight months. One contest alone dragged on so long that its memorials record dates from fourcalendar years: this was the struggle which began when Turkish troops attacked Russian outposts in October 1853 and continued until the Great Powers signed a general treaty of peace at Paris in March 1856, twenty-nine months later. As most of the fighting took place on the western littoral of a peninsula remote from familiar battle zones, the conflict soon became known in Britain, France and Italy as the Crimean War. So, too, it has been remembered in the Soviet Union since Stalin’s day. But in Tsarist times Russian writers, conscious always of the risk ofinvasion from the West, called it the ‘Eastern War’ (Vostochnaia Voina). This difference ofnomenclature throws an interesting light on strategic geographical thought both in St Petersburg and in the Western European capitals at the height of the nineteenth century.
Genre: Non-Fiction > History
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