Has Great Britain ever been to war, or had battles at some point in history with Russia?
The Crimean War 1853-6 (Britain became involved in 1854). Known to contemporaries as “the Russian War”. It arose from long-term Russian ambitions to expand westward and southward. The immediate cause was a petty struggle between Russia and France over rights in Ottoman Turkey. This produced an ultimatum from Russia to Turkey in March 1853, followed by Russian occupation of the Ottoman Danubian provinces (modern Romania) and a naval victory over Turkey at Sinope on the 27th November. Britain and France issued their own ultimatum against Russia on the 27th March 1854. Britain supplied a field army of about 28,000, which landed in May 1854 at Varna and then transferred to the Crimean peninsula, landing north of the main Russian naval base of Sebastopol on the 14th September. Their first victory, at the Alma six days later, enabled them to continue south around Sebastopol to Balaclava, so establishing a partial siege of the base. Through the autumn the Russians tried to break the siege of
