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It looks like a crisis is developing in the current day Crimea. So looking back at the region's history there was the Crimean War which made Florence Nightingale famous. How do you think the current crisis compares to the war history of this region?
How do you think the current crisis compares to the war history of this region?
Question is does Russia's foray into the peninsula harbor a possible 'Charge of the Light Brigade' where this invasion will lead into events of certain destruction?
Question is does Russia's foray into the peninsula harbor a possible 'Charge of the Light Brigade' where this invasion will lead into events of certain destruction?
We don't have even a platoon in the area, never mind a brigade.
It looks like a crisis is developing in the current day Crimea. So looking back at the region's history there was the Crimean War which made Florence Nightingale famous. How do you think the current crisis compares to the war history of this region?
This a very good question and I nearly fell on the floor when John Kerry said Russia was acting so 19th Century.. It is really too bad Americans are so damned ignorant of European history and the events surrounding thev Crimean War betwen Britain, France and Russia in 1856-7. The Crimean War illustrates arrogance, miscalculation and the clash of empires and what happens when to try to impose yourself in someone elses critical national interests. The British and French did not want to see the Czars gain the upper hand in the Balkans and seize the faltering Ottoman Empire and thus entire the Middle East, Persia and have a unfettered access to the high seas. Russia wanted that and to restore Christian control of Constantinople (The seat of Eastern Rite Christainity) and the Holy Lands. So the British and French decided to punish Russia and show it the price of threatening their interests. The Crieman War was the first breakdown of the peace established in 1815 by the Congress of Vienna that settled the Napoleonic Wars. A peacedimposed by the victors (Britain, Prussia, Austria and Russia). The war became a predictable bloody stanbdoff and the only thing of any good that came from it was Florence Nightingale and the idea of modern nursing and the concept of the "Red Cross" to provide care to the victims both military and civil of wars. (a few years later Clara Barton did the same for America's wounded on Civel War battlefields).
This a very good question and I nearly fell on the floor when John Kerry said Russia was acting so 19th Century.. It is really too bad Americans are so damned ignorant of European history and the events surrounding thev Crimean War betwen Britain, France and Russia in 1856-7. The Crimean War illustrates arrogance, miscalculation and the clash of empires and what happens when to try to impose yourself in someone elses critical national interests. The British and French did not want to see the Czars gain the upper hand in the Balkans and seize the faltering Ottoman Empire and thus entire the Middle East, Persia and have a unfettered access to the high seas. Russia wanted that and to restore Christian control of Constantinople (The seat of Eastern Rite Christainity) and the Holy Lands. So the British and French decided to punish Russia and show it the price of threatening their interests. The Crieman War was the first breakdown of the peace established in 1815 by the Congress of Vienna that settled the Napoleonic Wars. A peacedimposed by the victors (Britain, Prussia, Austria and Russia). The war became a predictable bloody stanbdoff and the only thing of any good that came from it was Florence Nightingale and the idea of modern nursing and the concept of the "Red Cross" to provide care to the victims both military and civil of wars. (a few years later Clara Barton did the same for America's wounded on Civel War battlefields).
Great post, thanks for the history lesson, just what I was looking for.
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