Martin Antonenko
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The Sultan declares war on Russia!
On September 25, 1768 of our era, the angry Ottoman Sultan Mustapha III.
... declares war on the Russian Empire - it is the fifth major conflict between the two states.
The declaration of war is the reaction to a targeted Russian provocation - a few days earlier a Cossack regiment had intentionally violated Ottoman territory near the city of Balka (Балта) 200 kilometers north of Odessa in today's Ukraine and killed several Ottoman officials and civilians...:
The Russians are standing "rifle at foot" so to speak and have only been waiting for the declaration of war (Tsarina Catherine II shied away from the odium of the aggressor) and are beginning to advance in Modavia and the Caucasus under the supreme command of Catherine's favorite Prince Potemkin.
From the Kalmyk steppe, a small Cossack patrol corps operated behind the Ottoman lines under Don Ataman Matvey Platov (who later conquered Napoleon).
The most important victory is the conquest of the strong Ottoman fortress of Azov on the lower Don, which has so far blocked the way to the Black Sea for the Russians with two meter thick chain locks across the river...:
The Russians were victorious on all fronts in the first three years of the war, and in 1771 they were able to invade the Crimean peninsula.
On June 29, 1771, the troops under Field Marshal Dolgurukij...
... in the Battle of Kaffa over the army of Crimean Khan Selim Giray...
...and occupied Yalta, Balaklava and Sudak.
Dolgoruky sends troops to Alushta and stormed the enemy capital Bakhchisarai, by the end of July Crimea is completely conquered.
The Russians are also successful at sea: between July 5 and July 7, 1770, the Ottoman fleet of the naval commander Kapudan Pasha Hosameddin near the port of Çeşme is captured by the Russians under the command of Admiral Count Aleksej Orlow. .
... and totally destroyed...:
Then came the setback – the Pugachev uprising broke out in the tsarist empire, tying down considerable numbers of Russian troops.
In the winter of 1773, the Ottomans gratefully accepted a Russian offer to negotiate a ceasefire – military defeats had severely shaken the morale of their troops.
During the siege of the Ottoman fortress of Chotin (on the Dniester, today Ukraine), for example, the entire Ottoman garrison, after a panic, refused to take up arms and “went on strike”, so that the Russians could take the place without resistance.
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On September 25, 1768 of our era, the angry Ottoman Sultan Mustapha III.
... declares war on the Russian Empire - it is the fifth major conflict between the two states.
The declaration of war is the reaction to a targeted Russian provocation - a few days earlier a Cossack regiment had intentionally violated Ottoman territory near the city of Balka (Балта) 200 kilometers north of Odessa in today's Ukraine and killed several Ottoman officials and civilians...:
The Russians are standing "rifle at foot" so to speak and have only been waiting for the declaration of war (Tsarina Catherine II shied away from the odium of the aggressor) and are beginning to advance in Modavia and the Caucasus under the supreme command of Catherine's favorite Prince Potemkin.
From the Kalmyk steppe, a small Cossack patrol corps operated behind the Ottoman lines under Don Ataman Matvey Platov (who later conquered Napoleon).
The most important victory is the conquest of the strong Ottoman fortress of Azov on the lower Don, which has so far blocked the way to the Black Sea for the Russians with two meter thick chain locks across the river...:
The Russians were victorious on all fronts in the first three years of the war, and in 1771 they were able to invade the Crimean peninsula.
On June 29, 1771, the troops under Field Marshal Dolgurukij...
... in the Battle of Kaffa over the army of Crimean Khan Selim Giray...
...and occupied Yalta, Balaklava and Sudak.
Dolgoruky sends troops to Alushta and stormed the enemy capital Bakhchisarai, by the end of July Crimea is completely conquered.
The Russians are also successful at sea: between July 5 and July 7, 1770, the Ottoman fleet of the naval commander Kapudan Pasha Hosameddin near the port of Çeşme is captured by the Russians under the command of Admiral Count Aleksej Orlow. .
... and totally destroyed...:
Then came the setback – the Pugachev uprising broke out in the tsarist empire, tying down considerable numbers of Russian troops.
In the winter of 1773, the Ottomans gratefully accepted a Russian offer to negotiate a ceasefire – military defeats had severely shaken the morale of their troops.
During the siege of the Ottoman fortress of Chotin (on the Dniester, today Ukraine), for example, the entire Ottoman garrison, after a panic, refused to take up arms and “went on strike”, so that the Russians could take the place without resistance.
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