Armée D'Orient (1915–19)
The Armee d' Orient is a name used for various historic units in the French Army, including: *Armée d'Orient (1798), the French taskforce sent by the French Directory under Bonaparte for an invasion of Egypt in 1798 * Armée d'Orient (1853), the unit sent by Napoleon III to the Crimean War The Crimean War, , was fought from October 1853 to February 1856 between Russia and an ultimately victorious alliance of the Ottoman Empire, France, the United Kingdom and Piedmont-Sardinia. Geopolitical causes of the war included the ... * Armée d'Orient (1915–19), the French-led field army fighting in the Balkans during World War I {{mil-unit-dis ...
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Armée D'Orient (1798)
The Armee d' Orient is a name used for various historic units in the French Army, including: * Armée d'Orient (1798), the French taskforce sent by the French Directory under Bonaparte for an invasion of Egypt in 1798 * Armée d'Orient (1853), the unit sent by Napoleon III to the Crimean War The Crimean War, , was fought from October 1853 to February 1856 between Russia and an ultimately victorious alliance of the Ottoman Empire, France, the United Kingdom and Piedmont-Sardinia. Geopolitical causes of the war included the ... * Armée d'Orient (1915–19), the French-led field army fighting in the Balkans during World War I {{mil-unit-dis ...
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Armée D'Orient (1853)
The Armee d' Orient is a name used for various historic units in the French Army, including: *Armée d'Orient (1798), the French taskforce sent by the French Directory under Bonaparte for an invasion of Egypt in 1798 * Armée d'Orient (1853), the unit sent by Napoleon III to the Crimean War * Armée d'Orient (1915–19) The Armee d' Orient is a name used for various historic units in the French Army, including: *Armée d'Orient (1798), the French taskforce sent by the French Directory under Bonaparte for an invasion of Egypt in 1798 * Armée d'Orient (1853), the ...

Crimean War
The Crimean War, , was fought from October 1853 to February 1856 between Russia and an ultimately victorious alliance of the Ottoman Empire, France, the United Kingdom and Piedmont-Sardinia. Geopolitical causes of the war included the decline of the Ottoman Empire, the expansion of the Russian Empire in the preceding Russo-Turkish Wars, and the British and French preference to preserve the Ottoman Empire to maintain the balance of power in the Concert of Europe. The flashpoint was a disagreement over the rights of Christian minorities in Palestine, then part of the Ottoman Empire, with the French promoting the rights of Roman Catholics, and Russia promoting those of the Eastern Orthodox Church. The churches worked out their differences with the Ottomans and came to an agreement, but both the French Emperor Napoleon III and the Russian Tsar Nicholas I refused to back down. Nicholas issued an ultimatum that demanded the Orthodox subjects of the Ottoman Empire be ...
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