![]() ![]() the first real setback for the great Russian Empire. It began when France attempted to exert authority over Christian holy sites inÄeclare itself the true "Defender of Eastern Christians" and intervene in 1853, bringing the French (and the British, who feared losing influence over the Levantine trade routes to India) to bear and starting a three-year war that ended in Russian defeat. ![]() Historically the Crimean War was fought between Russia and an alliance of the Ottoman Empire, France, the United Kingdom and Sardinia. ![]() Detail of Franz Roubaud's panoramic painting The Siege of Sevastopol (1904) ![]()
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