Russia depends on imports—both for her domestic…

March 1855 CE

Russia depends on imports—both for her domestic economy and for the supply of her military forces: the blockade forces Russia to rely on more expensive overland shipments from Prussia.

The blockade seriously undermines the Russian export economy and helps shorten the war.

The burning of tar warehouses and ships leads to international criticism, and in London the MP Thomas Gibson demands in the House of Commons that the First Lord of the Admiralty explain "a system which carried on a great war by plundering and destroying the property of defenceless villagers".

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