67.3 Crimean War - Russia invades Moldavia and Wallachia

A History of Europe, Key Battles

Carl Rylett

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🗓️ 17 June 2022

⏱️ 26 minutes

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The Russians invade Moldavia and Wallachia (in modern day Romania) and destroy the Ottoman Black Sea fleet at Sinop. Under public pressure, the French and British governments, concerned about growing Russian power, decide to send in troops to force the invaders to retreat. Seeking to neutralise the Russian threat in the Black Sea and Mediterranean, the Allies decide to invade Crimea. One of several early skirmishes was the famous 'charge of the light brigade'

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0:40.3	The Hello and welcome to a History of Europe Key Battles podcast.
1:02.0	This is the third of a four-part series on the Crimean War of 1853.
1:09.0	In the first two parts, I describe the build-up to the conflict and in this part
1:14.6	battle commences. The
1:30.3	The Towards the end of June 1853, the Russian army triggered the Crimean War
2:07.6	by crossing the River Pruit and occupying the Danubian principalities of Moldavia and Velakia,
2:14.6	a critical buffer zone between the Russian and Ottoman empires.
2:19.6	They rapidly advanced to Bucharest where they set up headquarters.
2:23.9	In every town they posted copies of a manifesto in which it stated that Russia did not want to make territorial gains,
2:31.4	and was only occupying the principalities as a guarantee for the satisfaction
2:35.4	of its religious grievances of the Ottoman government. The British administration was
2:42.7	divided in their reaction. The Prime Minister, Lord Aberdeen, refused to see it as an act of war
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