HIS103Y1 Lecture : HIS103 19. The Crimean War and Peace PART II
Document Summary
The turning point of the crimean war was the fall of the russian naval base in the city fortress of sebastopol in september 1855. At least in the view of french policy makers. From the french point of view, their main motive for going to war was to break up the quadruple alliance. It wanted to shake up the relationships between the states of quadruple alliance. That result being achieved as early as december 1845, few months into the war, when the austrians had returned to the role of peacemakers and proposed the deal. Congress held in vienna in spring of 1855 in vienna in part to get the western powers to attend the congress, austria had formally joined their alliance in december 1854. They had simply joined the western alliance, assuming the war was about to end so that they could afford that cheap gesture towards the west.
