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Here's something which I think might be interesting - a British-Russian war in the 1870s after the Russians decide to take Constantinople.

The primary question here is what the rough balance of forces would be - could the British deploy sufficient force to make a difference? This would be a much more serious test of the Cardwell system than any that happened OTL, after all.
Navally it seems to be a question of British RML turret battleships against Russian ironclads (including the Novgorods, the infamous round coast defence ships).
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