The veteran former Foreign Secretary Lord Palmerston…

January 1855 CE

The veteran former Foreign Secretary Lord Palmerston becomes prime minister on February 5.

Palmerston takes a hard line; he wants to expand the war, foment unrest inside the Russian Empire, and permanently reduce the Russian threat to Europe.

Sweden and Prussia are willing to join the UK and France, and Russia is isolated.

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Westminster Middlesex United Kingdom View →

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George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen View → Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston View →

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Christians, Eastern Orthodox View → Austria, Archduchy of View → Ottoman Empire View → Moldavia (Ottoman vassal), Principality of View → Wallachia (Ottoman vassal), Principality of View → Prussia, Kingdom of View → Russian Empire View → Sweden and Norway, Union between the Kingdoms of View → Greece, Kingdom of View → France, Second Empire of View → Britain (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) View →

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Crimean War View →

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