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the crimean war

By kianaA
  • Period: to

    cremean war

  • Menshikov arrives

    Menshikov arrives in Constantinople with demands on the Porte

  • Menshikov leaves

    Menshikov leaves Constantinople, breaking off relations

  • British approaches

    British Fleet approaches Dardanelles

  • Russian army crosses the Pruth

    Russian army crosses the Pruth into Moldavia

  • declaration of war

    Turkey declares war on Russia

  • defeated

    Russians defeated by Turks at Oltenitza

  • oltenitza

    Russians defeated by Turks at Oltenitza

  • destroyed

    Turkish naval squadron destroyed at Sinope

  • invade

    Russians invade the Dobruja

  • england

    The Guards leave England

  • GB&F

    France and Great Britain declare war on Russia

  • abandon

    Russians abandon the siege of Silitria

  • defeated

    Russians defeated at Giurgevo

  • attack

    Russian attack of 'Little Inkerman'

  • fall

    Fall of Lord Aberdeen's government

  • lord palmerston

    Lord Palmerston forms new government

  • death

    Death of Tsar Nicholas I, succession of Alexander II who recalls Menshikov

  • 1st

    First Russian attack at Kars

  • give up

    Surrender of Kars

  • accepted

    The Tsar accepts the Austrian demands

  • finished

    Ratification of Treaty of Paris, formal end of the war