Prima crisi d’Oriente: il confronto navale nel Mar Nero

The Crimean War is the first international conflict following the Napoleonic Wars and it’s the first crisis of the Continental order established in Vienna (1814-1815). The War opposed the Tsarist Empire which, under the pretext of defending the Orthodox Ottoman subjects, wants to disrupt the geopolitical order in the Eastern Europe gaining control over Bosphorus and Dardanelles, in order to have a coastal outlet in the Mediterranean Sea and fits in the main European trade routes to Ottoman Empire, and the coalition of Great Britain, France, the Habsburg Empire and the Kingdom of Sardinia, which want to maintain the status quo. In this war, a very strategic area is the Black Sea, which is the main theatre of the battles. Supremacy in this area soon becomes the key to victory in the conflict