The Sinope massacre
1853 · Event
Russia's Black Sea fleet annihilates an Ottoman squadron at anchor in Sinope harbour, killing some 3,000 sailors in an afternoon. A legitimate act of war reads in the British press as a massacre — and the outcry drags a reluctant Britain and an eager Napoleon III toward the Tsar's throat.
On these timelines: The Crimean War, Anatolia / Byzantium / Ottoman / Turkey, Russia & the USSR, Master
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