Limited War - Crimean War

Crimean War

Prime Minister of United Kingdom Lord Palmerston decided to fight a limited war against Russia, since waging a total war would have required massive reform of the armed forces.

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    “The funny part of it all is that relatively few people seem to go crazy, relatively few even a little crazy or even a little weird, relatively few, and those few because they have nothing to do that is to say they have nothing to do or they do not do anything that has anything to do with the war only with food and cold and little things like that.”
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