Crimean War
military conflict fought between October 1853 – March 1856 / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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.
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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.[1] It was also the first war to use a telegraph to give information to a newspaper quickly.[2]