The Crimean War 1853-1856

by Baumgart, Winfried

• ISBN13: 9780340759608
• ISBN10: 0340759607
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-05-03
• Publisher: Hodder Education Publishers

Summary

Written by the leading authority in the field, this study offers a fresh account of the Crimean War in its widest European and World contexts. Arguing that the modernity of the Crimean War has consistently been overlooked in comparison to the American Civil War, while in fact many of the battle-field technologies used in the latter were developed in the former, Baumgart probes the conflict's key issues: its origins and diplomacy, the war aims of the combatants, the capacity and characteristics of their armies, and the nature of the fighting itself.

Author Biography

Winfried Baumgart is Professor of History at the University of Maine, Germany.

Table of Contents

List of Maps	v
General Editor's Preface	vi
Preface	ix
Part 1 Origins and Diplomacy of the War	1	(22)
The Real Case of the War --- the Eastern Question	3	(6)
Diplomacy during the War, 1853--56	9	(14)
Part 2 The Belligerents and the Non-Belligerents	23	(38)
The War Aims of the Belligerents	25	(9)
The Non-Belligerent German Powers: Austria and Prussia	34	(9)
The Neutral Powers	43	(18)
Sweden	43	(2)
Spain	45	(2)
The United States	47	(4)
Greece	51	(3)
The Minor German Powers (the German Confederation)	54	(7)
Part 3 The Armies of the Belligerents	61	(30)
Russia	63	(6)
France	69	(7)
Great Britain	76	(10)
Turkey	86	(2)
Sardinia	88	(3)
Part 4 The War	91	(110)
The Danube Front, 1853--54	93	(22)
The Allied Fleets in the Levant and the Russian Occupation of the Danubian Principalities	93	(3)
The Naval Engagement at Sinope, 30 November 1853	96	(2)
The Siege of Silistria, March--June 1854	98	(4)
The Austrian Occupation of the Danubian Principalities	102	(5)
The Allied Military Build-up at Constantinople and at Varna	107	(3)
The French Expedition to the Dobrudja, August 1854	110	(5)
The Black Sea Theatre	115	(52)
The Invasion of the Crimea and the Battle of the Alma, 20 September 1854	115	(6)
The Siege of Sevastopol --- the Beginning	121	(5)
The Battle of Balaklava, 25 October 1854	126	(5)
The Battle of Inkerman, 5 November 1854	131	(7)
The November Storm of 1854 and the Crimean Winter of 1854--55	138	(7)
The Siege of Sevastopol --- the Second Stage, February---May 1855	145	(5)
The Siege of Sevastopol --- the Last Stage, June---August 1855	150	(9)
The Fall of Sevastopol and its Consequences	159	(8)
The Campaigns in the Baltic, 1854 and 1855	167	(10)
The Caucasian Battlefield, 1853--55	177	(8)
The Minor Theatres of War: the White Sea and the Pacific	185	(8)
Allied War Preparations for 1856 and the War Council in Paris, January 1856	193	(8)
Part 5 The End of the War	201	(18)
The Paris Peace Congress, February--April 1856	203	(8)
The Results of the War for International Relations	211	(8)
Annotated Bibliography	219	(15)
Bibliographical Index	234	(2)
General Index	236