206: The Forgotten Crimean War Battle That Was Fought In The Pacific

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The battle of Petropavlovsk 1854, during the Crimean War.
A forgotten battle on Russia's remote Siberian Pacific coast.

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In the summer of 1854, while the world's attention was focused on events in the Crimea, a combined British and French naval squadron was sailing towards the isolated Russian port of Petropavlovsk on the Kamchatka Peninsula. What should have been a straightforward victory for the overwhelmingly superior Allied fleet instead became a humiliating disaster that the Admiralty would later describe as "that melancholy failure at Petropavlovsk."

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