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The Answer is The Crimean War was a military conflict fought from October 1853 to February 1856 in which Russia lost to an alliance of France, the United Kingdom, the Ottoman Empire, and Sardinia. The war was part of a long-running contest between the major European powers for influence over territories of the declining Ottoman Empire. It was fought primarily on the Crimean Peninsula, and it is best known for the Siege of Sevastopol and the Charge of the Light Brigade. It also featured the use of modern technologies such as railways and the electric telegraph. The war is notable for the logistical and tactical errors during the land campaign on both sides (the Allies and the Russians).

The Crimean War is also famous for the work of Florence Nightingale, who was a pioneering figure in nursing who organized the care of wounded soldiers and became known as "The Lady with the Lamp" for her night rounds to aid the injured. The war highlighted the need for military and medical reforms, which eventually led to modernization of the armies involved.

The Treaty of Paris, signed on March 30, 1856, ended the war. It demilitarized the Black Sea and returned to the Ottoman Empire territories that had been captured by Russia. The Crimean War had long-lasting effects on the European balance of power and the architecture of European alliances, which were part of the prelude to World War I.

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