Flashcard sets with a 'crimean war' term meaning 'this conflict of 1853 to 1856, arising out of a dispute with frane over who should protect certain christian shrines in the ottoman empire, brought crisis. because the fighting was concentrated in the crimean peninsula on the black sea, russia's transportation network of rivers and wagons failed to supply the distant russian armies adequately. france and great britain, aided by sardinia and the ottoman empire, inflicted a humiliating defeat on russia.'

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