Storming Sevastopol - The Crimean War - European History - Part 5 - Extra History

Russia lost as soon as Sardinia joined the war.

Mary seacole did nothing of the sort she run a small respite centre for officers where she sold luxury items she was not in anyway what u claim

please do a philipines stuff

Starting to think Russians really suck at war and rely on their wintertime more than military brilliance

When Alexander gave freedom to the serfs, he basically gave them the freedom to starve. When he made that declaration it gave the nobles the go ahead to cut off any support to the serfs, because they were no longer their problem. This only made the hatred towards the tzar and the nobles grow and grow.

Even though I knew about the Crimean War, I still enjoyed your explanation. (The Light Brigade episode is also great.) I am now a subscriber & will be digging through your videos.

I think one of more overlooked, but no less important, aftereffects in the wake of The Crimean War was its impact warship construction going forward. For centuries, battles at sea would be fought using wooden hull sailing vessels firing solid shot cannonballs. With the introduction of incendiary explosive shells, naval planners and architects had to find a way to make their ships more survivable. Both the French and British navies came to the same conclusion: add iron armor plate over the hull. The French would launch the Gloire in 1859, and the Royal Navy would follow up with the HMS Warrior in 1860. These two ships would spark a new naval arms race that, in the following decades, would introduce heavier forms of armor plate, breech-loading guns for naval artillery, more powerful steam engines, and armor piercing shells that could punch through heavy armor plate. All of these technological breakthroughs would culminate in the Dreadnought battleships of WWI. And in all began in the aftermath of Crimea.

While the british government did brush off public criticism the army did learn some lessons from this, after the war major reforms were carried out, officers could no longer buy their rank and the logistics department was reworked as well as a number of other changes.

“Protested by barraging pedestrians, buses, upper class coach-goers, and police with snowballs.”

Did they think that would actually do anything? I know science and technology has grown since then. I didn’t know common sense has too.

(I’m saying that based off the fact that I’m assuming 1500 people was a lot back then as their protest was noted.)

This is the literal definition of, "want something done right you do it yourself!!!!"

Next chapter......NATO liberation of the oppressed peoples of Crimea! !

Thats so bloody British: Public to Government “Your idiots, hold our beer” - Proceed to turn farce into efficient warfare…….

This is what gives me pride in my country. The attitude of "the government is bloody useless. Lets just sort it out ourselves"

fckn lord palmeston again

My buddy eric did that once

Fun fact: The Crimean War (or rather the Posevastopol thaw) was one of the causes of the outbreak of the January Uprising. Due to Russia's defeat, the Tsar gave the Poles some freedom, so the Poles took advantage of it, but the Tsar discovered that the Poles were planning an uprising, so he mobilized all the young men into the Russian army. Mobilization was the direct cause of the January Uprising.

So, the spelling of Sevastopol set off my curiosity. Turns out a town near my hometown was named Sebastopol, allegedly after "a bar fight in the late 1850s, which was compared by a bystander to the long British siege of the seaport of Sevastopol (1854–1855) during the Crimean War" according to Wikipedia.
Today I learned! 😄

As i watch all the Crimean War episodes, it sounded more and more present day ruzziaNazzi 😂😂😂😂

Didn't think it was possible to make a series like this and still pronounce Sevastopol that way.

to stare into the past is to see the mistakes that we are still making today and realizing how slow we are to learn...

I love the civilian people said “f it we will do this ourselves “

Pigs flying that's funny

But without government who will build the roads?

This war really was the second modern war after the civil war

oooooh i just commented on this, im so happy you bring up the nurses and medical advancements like the triage! been loving ur vids, much love from a nurse!

Coming out of the war's treaties - who got the church keys? Maybe make a follow-up video about that?

A war in which all nations lost but Prussia who became filthy rich as the only mayor economic market Russia could buy from and Sardinia who while barely fighting turned French and British opinion strongly on their side against Austrian control on Italy (even though Austria, while neutral basically closed the balkan front by moving into Romania and mobilized enough troops on its border with Russia that the majority of the Russian army had to stay on the border in fear of the austrians ever joining)

No free press and people hauled for speaking bad about the government... So basically, Russia is still the same?

Russians were calling losses tactical retreats... Allowing freedom for serving... History doesn't repeat but damn it rhymes.

We Turks even have Sebastopol march, in memory of this war

They westernized a chunk of Crimea lol

Watching this series and listening to the trooper makes it more interesting

Crazy to think that such a modern war took place only fourty years after Napoleon’s campaign.

The more I learn about the Crimean War, the more tacky it seems that romance novels so frequently use it to provide a war hero for the heroine

Selling Alaska was Russias biggest L

To think that all this war couldve been avoided if two religious groups just compromised.

Talk about a butterfly effect

Winter helping Russia at wars became such a stupid stereotype. Have you ever been to Crimea in January or February? The temperature is between +5 and +10, sometimes goes even higher. There are only a couple of days in January when the snow falls, but it disappears after 2-3 days. February is mostly warm with temperature being between +8 and +15. Idk about weather in the UK or France since im from Sevastopol, but saying that winter was on our side in this war is a big mistake.

Civilians do not know what cold is. I didn’t before enlisting. Cold civilians can just go Inside or at least be warm at night. Standing in snow and rain for days, knowing that it is nowhere near finished is the most miserable you can be. No ending to the cold, with only your own body warmth to heat your ration