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Research Paper On The Crimean War

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The Crimean War
The main focus of my event narrative, will be on “the Crimean War”, which was mainly fought on the Crimean Peninsula, but it was not always known as that, the Russians Called it the “Eastern War”. This war “was fought 1854-1856 by an alliance of Britain and France in support of their traditional ally, Ottoman Turkey, against Russia, seen as the tyrannical enemy”, (McDonald, 7). “The war arose from the conflict of great powers in the Middle East and was more directly caused by Russian demands to exercise protection over the Orthodox subjects of the Ottoman sultan”, (Crimean War). “Another major factor was the dispute between Russia and France over the privileges of the Russian Orthodox and Roman Catholic churches in the holy places in Palestine”, (Crimean War). When it comes to the Crimean War, I hardly knew anything about it, I only know very little because my female archetype was a nurse during this war and her name is Florence Nightingale, who is the Mother of Nursing. She is called this because she founded modern nursing and to this day she is still talked about because if you ask any nurse, they should know of her. Nurse Nightingale went to the war to assist with soldiers because many of them were dying from either being sick or from battle wounds. Mainly what I would like to learn more about is why this war had …show more content…

“It did awaken the new Russian emperor Alexander II (who succeeded Nicholas I in March 1855) to the need to overcome Russia’s backwardness in order to compete successfully with the other European powers”, (Crimean War). To this day Russia is still one of those countries that in a way is an outsider, and I believe that will never change. Mainly though one person who will and forever be remembered is Florence Nightingale for the work she did during the Crimean War and also being the founder of modern nursing, to me he is the actress of this

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