This war's naval battles of Kinburn and Sinope saw some of the first uses of ironclad warships.
This war's naval battles of Kinburn and Sinope saw some of the first uses of ironclad warships. This war ended not long after the Omar Pasha led the Siege of Kars, and it began with Allied victories at Alma and Inkerman. French forces then trapped the Black Sea fleet during the Siege of (*) Sevastopol. The "Lady with the Lamp," Florence Nightingale, was a nurse in this war, which saw a disastrous cavalry charge at the Battle of Balaclava. For ten points, identify this major European war which was ended by the 1856 Treaty of Paris and was named after the Ukrainian peninsula on which most of the fighting occurred.
This war's naval battles of Kinburn and Sinope saw some of the first uses of ironclad warships.
{Crimea}n War