Martin Antonenko
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In 1768 there was another war between the enemy powers Russia and the Ottoman Empire. According to the official reading, it is the fifth round of arms!
While the war in Bulgaria today, the eternal battlefield between the Ottomans and the Russians, drags on listlessly, the Russian strategists are targeting the vastly superior Ottoman fleet in the Black Sea, which allows the Turks to carry the war wherever they want - because the Russian Black Sea fleet is still under construction, consists of only six ships of different sizes - and is not up to the overpowering enemy alone.
Sankt Peterburg clandestinely sends two squadrons of the Baltic (Baltic) fleet under Count Aleksej Orlov ...
... a favorite, former lover and co-conspirator of Tsarina Ekaterina II. to the Mediterranean - British admiral Sir John Elphinstone is on board as a consultant ...:
Arriving in the waters of the Aegean, the Russians search for the Ottoman fleet, which their commander Kapudan Pasha (Admiral) Hosameddin ...
... moved from the Black Sea to the Mediterranean to be safe from surprises. He has no idea that the threat comes from behind, so to speak ...!
On July 5, 1770, the Russians found the Ottoman fleet, at anchor, as if in deep peace, north of the Tschesme (Cheme) Bay (now Mersin Bay) ...:
The Ottoman commander has 16 battleships, six frigates, six chebeques, 13 galleys and 32 other smaller ships that carry more than 1,300 cannons.
Orlov, on the other hand, has only nine battleships, three frigates, and eight unarmed auxiliary ships under his command with barely more than 500 cannons!
Despite their inferiority in numbers, the Russians attack the Ottomans immediately - and completely destroy Kapudan Pasha's fleet in three-day battles and follow-up battles!
The fighting ended on the night of July 7, 1770 - when there was nothing left to destroy for the Russians!
The Ottomans lose their entire fleet and 11,000 dead sailors, the Russians lose one ship, Orlow's flagship "Svjatoj Yestavij" ...
... which catches fire when the main mast of the exploding Ottoman battleship "Sultan Mustafa" falls on her deck ...:
Almost 500 sailors fall on the Russian side.
It is the greatest naval victory of the Russian Navy in history and the greatest defeat at sea of the Ottomans since Lepanto in 1571 ...
While the war in Bulgaria today, the eternal battlefield between the Ottomans and the Russians, drags on listlessly, the Russian strategists are targeting the vastly superior Ottoman fleet in the Black Sea, which allows the Turks to carry the war wherever they want - because the Russian Black Sea fleet is still under construction, consists of only six ships of different sizes - and is not up to the overpowering enemy alone.
Sankt Peterburg clandestinely sends two squadrons of the Baltic (Baltic) fleet under Count Aleksej Orlov ...
... a favorite, former lover and co-conspirator of Tsarina Ekaterina II. to the Mediterranean - British admiral Sir John Elphinstone is on board as a consultant ...:
Arriving in the waters of the Aegean, the Russians search for the Ottoman fleet, which their commander Kapudan Pasha (Admiral) Hosameddin ...
... moved from the Black Sea to the Mediterranean to be safe from surprises. He has no idea that the threat comes from behind, so to speak ...!
On July 5, 1770, the Russians found the Ottoman fleet, at anchor, as if in deep peace, north of the Tschesme (Cheme) Bay (now Mersin Bay) ...:
The Ottoman commander has 16 battleships, six frigates, six chebeques, 13 galleys and 32 other smaller ships that carry more than 1,300 cannons.
Orlov, on the other hand, has only nine battleships, three frigates, and eight unarmed auxiliary ships under his command with barely more than 500 cannons!
Despite their inferiority in numbers, the Russians attack the Ottomans immediately - and completely destroy Kapudan Pasha's fleet in three-day battles and follow-up battles!
The fighting ended on the night of July 7, 1770 - when there was nothing left to destroy for the Russians!
The Ottomans lose their entire fleet and 11,000 dead sailors, the Russians lose one ship, Orlow's flagship "Svjatoj Yestavij" ...
... which catches fire when the main mast of the exploding Ottoman battleship "Sultan Mustafa" falls on her deck ...:
Almost 500 sailors fall on the Russian side.
It is the greatest naval victory of the Russian Navy in history and the greatest defeat at sea of the Ottomans since Lepanto in 1571 ...
