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Battle of Krusi Beteja e Krusit | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
Montenegro | |||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Petar I Petrović Njegoš Jovan Radonjić | Kara Mahmud Pasha † | ||||||
Units involved | |||||||
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Strength | |||||||
6,500 men | Unknown | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
132 dead | 7,000 dead[dubious – discuss] |
The Battle of Krusi (Albanian: Beteja e Krusit; Serbian: Битка на Крусима, romanized: Bitka na Krusima) was fought on 22 September 1796 between the campaigning army of Ottoman Empire commanded by Kara Mahmud Pasha, the Pasha of Scutari, and tribes of Prince-Bishopric of Montenegro under the command of Metropolitan Petar I Petrović Njegoš and Jovan Radonjić, at Krusi, Lješanska nahija.