The Crimean War occurred in 1853 when Russia invaded the Ottoman controlled areas of Moldavia and Wallachia. Then the Ottoman Empire alongside their allies, Great Britain, France and Sardinia, went to war against the Russian army and their quest to return the “Holy Land” of Israel back from the Ottoman Turks and return it to the Russian Orthodox. The French and the British were afraid of Russian expansion into Ottoman land, thus leading to their alliance with the Turks. Great Britain were truly afraid of losing their control of the Mediterranean sea to the Russians. The Russians wanted the land in the Ottoman empire in which they believed was rightfully theirs. So the Russian Empire slowly expanded south into the Caucus Area and into present
