Yaƙin Crimean ya buɗe a watan Satumba na 1854. A cikin ginshiƙai bakwai, jiragen ruwa 400 sun tashi daga Varna, kowane jirgin ruwa yana jan jiragen ruwa guda biyu.Tsayawa a ranar 13 ga Satumba a bakin tekun Eupatoria, garin ya mika wuya, kuma sojojin ruwa 500 suka sauka don mamaye shi.Garin da bakin teku za su ba da matsayi na koma baya idan bala'i ya faru.Sojojin kawance sun isa Kalamita Bay da ke yammacin gabar tekun Crimea kuma suka fara tashi a ranar 14 ga Satumba.Yarima Alexander Sergeyevich Menshikov, kwamandan sojojin Rasha a Crimea, ya ba da mamaki.Bai yi tunanin abokan kawance za su kai hari a kusa da farkon lokacin sanyi ba, kuma sun kasa tattara isassun sojoji don kare Crimea.Sojojin Birtaniya da na doki sun kwashe kwanaki biyar suna sauka.Yawancin mutanen suna fama da cutar kwalara kuma an dauke su daga cikin jiragen ruwa.Babu wuraren da za a yi amfani da kayan aiki a kan ƙasa, don haka dole ne a aika da ƙungiyoyi don satar karusai da kekuna daga gonakin Tatar na yankin.Abinci ko ruwan sha ga mazan shine rabon kwana uku da aka basu a Varna.Babu tantuna ko jakunkuna da aka sauke daga cikin jiragen ruwa, don haka sojojin suka kwana na farko ba tare da mafaka ba, ba tare da kariya daga ruwan sama mai yawa ko kuma zafi mai zafi ba.Duk da shirin kai harin ba-zata kan Sevastopol da jinkirin da aka yi ya samu cikas, bayan kwanaki shida a ranar 19 ga watan Satumba, sojojin sun fara zuwa kudu, tare da dakarun sa na goyon bayansu.Tattakin ya ƙunshi ratsa koguna biyar: Bulganak, Alma, Kacha, Belbek, da Chernaya.Washegari da safe ne sojojin kawance suka gangaro cikin kwarin don yin artabu da Rashawa, wadanda dakarunsu suke a wancan gefen kogin, a kan tudun Alma.