The destruction of the Russian Black Sea Fleet and the naval base at Sevastopol were major strategic successes – as was the economic meltdown which obliged a weakened Russia to sue for peace. The regime accepted that the war had been a major defeat, prompting major social and economic reforms. I wrote about this some years ago...
As for the ‘Thin Red Line’, that action ended with the Russian forces in full retreat...
It's interesting how english try to present the Crimean War as their victory. British were shamefully defeated and retreat. Especially if we shall remember "Thin Red line".
People think of WWI in terms of trenches, artillery and horrendous statistics but little seems to be known of the allied blockade of Germany. 230,000 Germans died of malnutrition in 1918 and it was this background, the queuing for food (Dance Polanaise as it was known) that made the result of the November Revolution in germany inevitable.
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The destruction of the Russian Black Sea Fleet and the naval base at Sevastopol were major strategic successes – as was the economic meltdown which obliged a weakened Russia to sue for peace. The regime accepted that the war had been a major defeat, prompting major social and economic reforms. I wrote about this some years ago...
As for the ‘Thin Red Line’, that action ended with the Russian forces in full retreat...
It's interesting how english try to present the Crimean War as their victory. British were shamefully defeated and retreat. Especially if we shall remember "Thin Red line".
People think of WWI in terms of trenches, artillery and horrendous statistics but little seems to be known of the allied blockade of Germany. 230,000 Germans died of malnutrition in 1918 and it was this background, the queuing for food (Dance Polanaise as it was known) that made the result of the November Revolution in germany inevitable.