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Question: How successful was the russian campaign in the Crimean War!?
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It wasn't!. They lost!. The capture of Kerch on 24 May, which secured allied command of the Sea of Azov, severed the Russian overland supply lines!. Over the remains of the summer, the allies slowly nibbled at the Russian defences of Sevastopol, while the battle of the Traktir (16 August 1855), saw the final Russian attempt to relieve the city defeated by French and Sardinian troops!. Finally, on 8 September 1855, the French launched one of the few well planned attacks of the war, aimed at the Malakoff, one of the two key strongpoints of the defence!. A heavy bombardment was followed by a well timed assault by an entire French corp!. Surprise was achieved by the first use of synchronised watches to time an assault, and after intensive fighting the Malakoff was captured!. This put the remaining strongpoint under an intolerable strain, and so that night Prince Gorchakov evacuated the city!.

The capture of Sevastopol was the last significant fighting of the war!. Peace terms were agreed on 1 February 1856 at Vienna, and the final peace agreed at the Congress of Paris (28 February-30 March 1856), resulting in the Treaty of Paris!. Russian lost her dominance in the Balkans, and agreed to respect the integrity of the Ottoman Empire!. In some ways Austria was the biggest loser!. Having chosen to defy the Russians in the Balkans, she lost her main ally, and over the next few years found that Britain and France were not interesting in propping her up!. Indeed, within three years the War of Austria with France and Piedmont (1859), lost her much of her Italian possessions, while the Austro-Prussian War of 1866 ended any Austrian influence in Germany!. Tsar Alexander II, who came to the Russian throne in March 1855, realised that the war demonstrated the urgent need for modernisation in Russia

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Russian Offensive in the Balkans : 1853-1854

The War began when Russia invaded the Danube Provinces on the Balkan peninsula!. Soon after, she attacked, and virtually destroyed the Turkish fleet in the harbor of Sinope, off the north coast of Turkey!. At sea the Russians prevailed, but their invasion of the Balkans was contended successfully by the Turks!. Britain's first major involvement in the war, was a naval action in which she bombarded the Russian arsenal at Sveaborg on the Baltic Sea!. Once Britain and France threatened to enter the war, Russia agreed to withdraw its army from the Danube provinces, but the West had resolved upon destroying Russias power in the Black Sea, and so demanded concessions that Russia was unwilling to make!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Not very!. Russia lost in tyhe Crimean war!. They wanted to increase their territory and decrease the power of the Ottomasn Empire!. The British and French, wary of the influx of power, fought the Russians and won!.Www@QuestionHome@Com