Liam O'Mara IV, PhD17h ago
One of the more consequential European wars in between Napoleon & WWI, the #CrimeanWar grew on #ThisDayInHistory in 1854 when Britain & France joined on the #Ottoman side. In line with the #EasternQuestion, they backed the #Turkish empire as a bulwark against #Russian expansion.
BrewminateMar 12

⚔️ The Crimean War is a classic example of strategic miscalculation.

European leaders expected a limited conflict. Instead they encountered logistical chaos and the brutal realities of modern warfare.

Assumptions about “small wars” rarely survive contact with reality.

#CrimeanWar #History #MilitaryHistory #Brewminate

https://brewminate.com/crimean-war-limited-war-miscalculation/

Crimean War and the Illusion of Limited War

Explore how European leaders misjudged the Crimean War as a limited conflict and how the siege of Sevastopol revealed the realities of modern warfare.

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History TodayMar 12

During the #CrimeanWar soldiers died in appalling conditions, but the treatment of enemy prisoners was surprisingly humane.

🔒 Donald Rayfield’s recent feature is waiting for you in the archive

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/feature/chivalry-chains-prisoners-crimean-war

Chivalry in Chains: Prisoners in the Crimean War | History Today

PugJesusFeb 26

Bruh

https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/1820686/bruh

Cowboys TabletopsFeb 25
🇩🇪🇬🇧🇺🇸 Meine ersten Red Coats für Black Powder Crimean War sind fertig.
Danke an Warlord Games für diese wunderbaren Minis.
Mehr Infos zum Regelbuch Into the Valley of Death findet Ihr auf meinem YouTube Kanal.

My first Red Coats for Black Powder Crimean War are finished.
Thanks to Warlord Games for these wonderful miniatures.
You can find more information about the Into the Valley of Death rulebook on my YouTube channel.

#tabletopgames #wargaming #28mmminiatures #modellbau #basteln #historischespiele #19thcentury #wargames #crimeanwar #warlordgames #blackpowdergame
Andrea Clayton VailFeb 14

Probably the best pop song about a battle in the Crimean War

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prFTCAdx-qc

#CanadianMusic / #80sMusic / #CrimeanWar / #History

Glass Tiger - Thin Red Line

YouTube
kriykatDec 26
Jeffery Sachs: Two Centuries of Russophobia & Rejection of Peace
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/12/24/jeffery-sachs-two-centuries-of-russophobia-rejection-of-peace/
While other powers are presumed to have legitimate security interests that must be balanced and accommodated, Russia’s interests are presumed illegitimate. Russophobia functions less as a sentiment than as a systemic distortion — one that repeatedly undermines Europe’s own security.…
#Politics #AmericanEmpire #Analysis #Austria #Britain #ColdWar #Commentary #Europe #EuropeanUnion #France #Germany #History #InternationalLaw #Nato #Russia #Turkey #Ukraine #BolshevikRevolution #BorisJohnson #CharterOfParis #ConcertOfEurope #CouncilOfEurope #CrimeanWar #IvoneKirkpatrick #JeffreySachs #KonradAdenauer #Maidan #MichaelJabaraCarley #MikhailGorbachev #MinskAccords #Ostpolitik #RolfSteininger #TsarNicholasI #VladimirPutin #WilliamBurns #ZbigniewBrzezinski
Jeffery Sachs: Two Centuries of Russophobia & Rejection of Peace

While other powers are presumed to have legitimate security interests that must be balanced and accommodated, Russia’s interests are presumed illegitimate. Russophobia functions less as a sentiment than as a systemic distortion — one that repeatedly undermines Europe’s own security. By Jeff

Consortium News
PugJesusNov 17
British Coldstream Guards during the Crimean War
PugJesusOct 19
Britain earned an unlimited supply of Russian salt
Show threadbsmall2May 21, 2025
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> Balaklava, a port on the Crimean Peninsula, where a former Russian military officer named Aleksandr Kuts, who served as my guide, summed up Nightingale as we stood on the cliff near the site of the hospital where she toiled. “Florence was a big personality,” he said. “The British officers didn’t want her here, but she was a very insistent lady, and she established her authority. Nobody could stand in her way...
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#CrimeanWar #BlackSea #LadyOfTheLamp
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