HIS103Y1 Lecture : Topic 10 - Crimean War Topic 10 - Crimean War
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- in austria, metternich fell and habsburg monarchy collapse; - britain and russia remain the only two powers untouched by revolutions; - b and r put efforts to localize wars to avoid any european war; - 3 wars: northern italy, hungary; two duchies of schleswig and holstein; - russia would never allow hungary to be free; that would create precedent for italy and poland; - revolution in german lands almost created a unified state led by prussia, objected by russia. - russia almost replaced france as the arbiter of europe; - objective of napoleon iii: denounce the congress of vienna; free france from the shackles of 1815; - strategy: taking advantage of the conflicts among the great powers; france remained behind the curtain; - 1852 napoleon iii demanded from the ottoman empire the recognition of france being the protector of the holy land instead of russia, and demanded the keys from the holy church;
