30th Nov The destruction of the Turkish ships provide GreatBritain and France the casus belli for declaring war against Russia, on the side of the Ottoman Empire
30th Nov The Sultan's armies attack the Russian army near the Danube, Nicholas respondes by dispatching warships, which destroy a patrol squadron of Ottoman frigates and corvettes while they were anchored at the port of Sinope
France 's show of force, combined with aggressive diplomacy and money, induced Sultan Abdlmecid I to accept a new treaty , confirming France and the Roman Catholic Church as the supreme Chris tian authority in the Holy Land
