Hostilities in the Russo-Turkish (Crimean) War, 1853 – 1856, ceased on 29 February 1856 following the assembly of The Congress of Paris peace conference in February 1856. The British representative was Henry Richard Charles Wellesley, 1st Earl of Cowley who was the British Ambassador to France and a nephew of Field Marshal His Grace The Duke of Wellington. The Treaty of Paris was signed on 30 March 1856 and it signified the end of the Crimean War.

The Royal Irish Regiment has the Battle Honour SEVASTOPOL emblazoned on the Regimental Colours