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Towards the end of the Crimean War the Russians invade the Ottoman Empire, coming up against the Fortress City of Kars. Command of the Ottoman forces fall to an old drunk, British man who may or may not be the bastard child of Prince Edward, all of the Turkish officers under him are actually Hungarian, and one American catholic.

Sources:

Winifred Baumgart. The Crimean War: 1853-1856

Raugh Harold. The Victorians at War: 1815-1914

Humphrey Sandwith. The Siege of Kars 1856

William Edward David Allen, Paul Muratoff. Caucasian Battlefields: The History of the Wars of the Turco-Caucasian Border 1828-1921