title: The White Sea and Pacific Campaigns
abstract: The Crimean War was a global maritime conflict: allied naval and amphibious forces attacked Russia and blockaded its commercial ports in the Baltic, the Black Sea, the Pacific Ocean and the White Sea. While the last two theatres have received relatively little attention in a historiography dominated by military operations in the Crimea, they provide critical insights into allied grand strategy, and confirm the dynamic offensive approach, based on British approaches, that the allies adopted in al