Turkey/Ukraine: 'The Battle of Sinope'. Oil on canvas painting by Ivan Aivazovsky (1817-1900), 1853. The Battle of Sinop, or the Battle of Sinope, took place on 30 November 1853 at Sinop, a sea port in northern Anatolia, when Imperial Russian warships commanded by Vice-Admiral Pavel Nakhimov struck and annihilated a patrol force of Ottoman ships anchored in the harbor. The battle was part of the Crimean War, and a contributory factor in bringing France and Britain into the conflict.

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