title: The Crimean War’s First Shots in the Baltic, 1854
abstract: Several months prior to the Crimean War's outbreak, British foreign secretary Lord Clarendon straightforwardly concluded that, "in the event of war between this Country and Russia, the Baltic must become a theatre of active operations."1 In fact, the entire Crimean conflict was precisely timed to facilitate a British plan to cripple the Russian warships they thought were still anchored off Revel (Tallinn), Estonia.2 Allied efforts against Russia's Black Sea stronghold at Sevastopol, on the other
journal: Palgrave Macmillan US eBooks