Allied pre-war planning: the "Nelson touch" that never materialized -- The White Sea, Finmark, and Russian strategy -- The Crimean War's first shots in the Baltic, 1854 -- Bomarsund, Sweden, and Sweaborg -- Campaigns in the White Sea, 1854 -- Kola, blockade, and advances in naval medicine -- The Crimean War in the Pacific world, 1854 -- Petropavlovsk, Japan, and after -- Frustration in the Pacific, shifts along the Amur -- Sweaborg and another Baltic campaign, 1855 -- Conclusion: 1856 and a "peace that sticks in the throat".