The Battle of Küçük Kaynarca (Russian: Битва при Кайнарджи; Turkish: Kaynarca Savaşı), a major battle during the Russian-Turkish War, between the units of General Weismann, one of Catherine the Great's finest generals,[3] and the Turkish corps.
| Battle of Küçük Kaynarca | |||||||
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| Part of the Russo-Turkish War (1768–1774) | |||||||
.jpg) The battle plan from the Sytin Military Encyclopedia | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
 Ottoman Empire |
 Russia | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
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Numan-Paşa |
Weismann von Weissenstein † | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
| 20,000[1] | 5,600[2][1] | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| 5,000[2] | 19 killed, 161 wounded[2] | ||||||
Background
editAfter the unsuccessful siege, the Russian army was in danger of a possible encirclement between the 30,000 garrison of Silistra and the corps of Numan Pasha, to counteract the latter, a detachment of General Weismann with 5,600 people was sent.
Battle
editFollowing Rumyantsev's order on July 2, 1773, Weismann moved to meet Numan Pasha's army, and on July 3 attacked his camp, the Turks fought bravely at the beginning and were able to break through Weismann's infantry square wounding him in the heart, the Russian army fiercely repelled this attack and the morale of the Ottoman troops fell, the Russians did not spare even the prisoners.[1][3]
Aftermath
editA year later, an agreement was signed at the site of the battle, which stopped 6 years of bloodshed between Russia and the Ottoman Empire, the agreement was very beneficial to the Russians and the Turks ceded significant territories.[4]
Reference
edit- ^ a b c Velichko et al. 1911.
- ^ a b c Velichko et al. 1915.
- ^ a b Arsenyev & Petrushevsky 1892.
- ^ Егоршина 2023, p. 126.
Bibliography
edit- Velichko, Konstantin I.; Novitsky, Vasily F.; Schwarz, Alexey V. von; Apushkin, Vladimir A.; Schoultz, Gustav K. von (1911). "ВЕЙСМАНЪ, бар., фонъ Вейсенштейнъ, Отто-Адольфъ" [Weismann, baron, von Weißenstein, Otto Adolf]. Военная энциклопедия (in Russian). Vol. 5: Бомбарда – Верещагин. Moscow: Ivan Sytin. pp. 279–280. Retrieved 4 November 2023.
- Velichko, Konstantin; Novitsky, Vasily; Schwarz, Alexey von; Apushkin, Vladimir; Schoultz, Gustav von (1915). "КУЧУКЪ-КАЙНАРДЖИ" [Küçük Kaynarca]. Военная энциклопедия (in Russian). Vol. 14: Круковский – Линта. Moscow: Ivan Sytin. pp. 433–434. Retrieved 17 July 2023.
- Arsenyev, Konstantin; Petrushevsky, Fyodor (1892). "Вейсманъ фонъ-Вейсенштейнъ" [Weismann von Weißenstein]. Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary (in Russian). Vol. 10: Вальтер – Венути. Friedrich A. Brockhaus (Leipzig), Ilya A. Efron (Saint Petersburg). p. 728.
- Егоршина, Петрова (2023). История русской армии [The history of the Russian Army] (in Russian). Moscow: Edition of the Russian Imperial Library. ISBN 978-5-699-42397-2.