Russo-Turkish War, 1768-1774

Russo Turkish War, 1768 1774

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Russo-Turkish War, 1768-1774

The Russo-Turkish War of 1768–1774 was a decisive conflict that brought Southern Ukraine

Ukraine

Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the east; Belarus to the north; Poland, Slovakia, and Hungary to the west; Romania and Moldova to the southwest; and the Black Sea and Sea of Azov to the south....
, Northern Caucasus, and Crimea

Crimea

Crimea or the Autonomous Republic of Crimea is an autonomous republic of Ukraine located on the northern coast of the Black Sea, occupying a peninsula of the same name....
within the orbit of the Russian Empire

Russian Empire

File:Russian Emperor Flag.jpgFile:Romanov Flag.svgThe Russian Empire was a state that existed from 1721 until the Russian Revolution of 1917....
.

The war followed the internal tensions within Poland

Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe. Poland is bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian Enclave and exclave, to the north....
where there was the strife between the nobility and the king Stanislaus Augustus Poniatowski, former favorite of the Russia

Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
n Empress Catherine II

Catherine II of Russia

Catherine II, called Catherine the Great .The Russian empress Catherine II, known as Catherine the Great, reigned from 1762 to 1796. Under her direct auspices the Russian Empire expanded, improved in its administration, and underwent a dramatic policy of Westernization....
. The king was dependent on Russian military backing.

A detachment of Cossacks in Russian service entered Balta

Balta, Ukraine

Balta is a small city in the Odessa Oblast of south-western Ukraine. It is the Capital city of the Baltsky Raion , and located approximately 200 kilometers from the oblast capital, Odessa....
(on Ottoman

Ottoman Empire

The Ottoman Empire , also known by its contemporaries as the Turkish Empire or Turkey , was an empire that lasted from 1299?1923. It was Treaty of Lausanne by the Republic of Turkey, which was officially proclaimed on October 29, 1923....
territory) during the pursuit of a Polish Bar Confederation

Bar Confederation

The Bar Confederation was an association of Poland nobles formed at the fortress of Bar, Ukraine in Podolia in 1768 to defend the internal and external independence of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth against aggression by the Russian Empire and against King Stanislaw August Poniatowski and Polish reformers who were attempting to limit...
force.

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The Russo-Turkish War of 1768–1774 was a decisive conflict that brought Southern Ukraine

Ukraine

Crimea

Russian Empire

Poland

Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
n Empress Catherine II

Catherine II of Russia

Balta, Ukraine

Ottoman Empire

Bar Confederation

Ottoman Empire

The Ottoman Empire , also known by its contemporaries as the Turkish Empire or Turkey , was an empire that lasted from 1299?1923. It was Treaty of Lausanne by the Republic of Turkey, which was officially proclaimed on October 29, 1923....
accused the troops of having conducted the slaughter of its subjects in the town of Balta, a charge denied by the Russian authorities. Following this border incident at Balta, Sultan

Sultan

Sultan is an Islamic honorifics, with several historical meanings. Originally it was an Arabic language abstract noun meaning "strength", "authority", or "rulership", derived from the verbal noun ???? sulah, meaning "authority" or "power"....
Mustafa III

Mustafa III

Mustafa III was the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1757 to 1774. He was a son of Sultan Ahmed III and was succeeded by his brother Abdul Hamid I ....
declared war on Russia on September 25 1768. The Turks formed the alliance with the Polish oppositionary forces of Bar Confederation

Bar Confederation

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
, which offered naval advisers to the Imperial Russian Navy

Imperial Russian Navy

The Imperial Russian Navy refers to the Tsarist Naval fleet prior to the Bolshevik Revolution....
.

The Polish opposition was defeated by Aleksandr Suvorov. After that, he was transferred to the Turkish theatre of operations, where in 1773 and 1774 he won several minor and major battles for Russia following the previous successes of the Russian Field-Marshal Count Peter Rumiantsev

Rumyantsev

The Rumyantsev family were Russian counts prominent in Russian imperial politics in the 18th and early 19th centuries. The family claimed descent from the boyar Rumyanets who broke his oath of allegiance and surrendered Nizhny Novgorod to Vasili I of Russia in 1391....
at Larga

Battle of Larga

The Battle of Larga was fought between 65,000 Crimean Tatars cavalry and 15,000 Turkish infantry under Kaplan Girey against 38,000 Russians under Field-Marshal Pyotr Rumyantsev on the banks of the Larga River for eight hours on 7 July, 1770....
and Kagul

Battle of Kagul

The Battle of Cahul was the most important land battle of the Russo-Turkish War, 1768-1774 and one of the largest battles of the 18th century. It was fought on 21 July, 1770, just a fortnight after the Russian victory Battle of Larga....
.

The naval operations of the Russian Baltic Fleet

Baltic Fleet

The Twice Red Banner Baltic Fleet - , was the Imperial Russian Navy, later Soviet Navy, and is now the Russian Navy's presence in the Baltic Sea....
in the Mediterranean yielded even more spectacular victories under the command of Aleksey Grigoryevich Orlov. In 1771, Egypt

Egypt

Egypt is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Western Asia. Covering an area of about , Egypt borders the Mediterranean Sea to the north, the Gaza Strip and Israel to the northeast, the Red Sea to the east, Sudan to the south and Libya to the west....
and Syria

Syria

Syria , officially the Syrian Arab Republic , is an Arab-majority country in Southwest Asia, bordering Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea to the west, Israel to the southwest, Jordan to the south, Iraq to the east, and Turkey to the north....
rebelled against the Ottoman rule

Orlov Revolt

The Orlov Revolt was a precursor to the Greek War of Independence , which saw a Greece uprising in the Peloponnese at the instigation of Aleksey Grigoryevich Orlov, commander of the Russian Naval Forces of the Russo-Turkish War, 1768-1774....
while the Russian fleet totally destroyed the Turkish Navy

Navy

A navy is the branch of a nation's military forces principally designated for naval warfare and amphibious warfare; namely, lake- or ocean-borne combat operations and related functions....
in the Battle of Chesma

Battle of Chesma

The naval battle Battle of Chesma took place on 5 July-7 July 1770 near and in ?esme Bay, in the area between Asia Minor and the island of Chios, the site of a number of past naval battles between Ottoman Empire and Venice....
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On July 21, 1774, the Ottoman Empire signed the Treaty of Kuçuk Kainarji. According to the treaty, the Crimean Khanate

Crimean Khanate

The Crimean Khanate or the Khanate of Crimea was a Crimean Tatars state from 1441 to 1783. Its native name was Crimean Yurt . The khanate was by far the longest-lived of the Turkic peoples khanates that succeeded the empire of the Golden Horde....
formally gained its independence (but in reality became dependent on Russia), Russia received the war reparations

War reparations

War reparations refer to the monetary compensation intended to cover damage or injury during a war. Generally, the term war reparations refers to money or goods changing hands, rather than such property transfers as the annexation of land....
of 4.5 million rubles and two key seaports allowing the direct access to the Black Sea

Black Sea

The Black Sea is an inland sea sea bounded by southeastern Europe, the Caucasus and the Anatolia and is ultimately connected to the Atlantic Ocean via the Mediterranean Sea and Aegean Seas and various straits....
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This war was but a small part of the continuous process of expansion of the Russian Empire southwards and eastwards during the 18th and 19th centuries.