Anapa Campaign (1790)

Anapa Campaign
Part of Sheikh Mansur Movement and Russo-Turkish War (1787–1792)
Date10th February[a] – 4th May[b]1790[1]
Location
Circassia and the Ottoman Empire
(Modern–day Republic of Adygea and Krasnodar Krai, Russian Federation)
Result
  • North Caucasian–Ottoman victory
  • Heavy Russian casualties
  • Failure of the Russian army to capture Anapa
Belligerents
Sheikh Mansur Movement
Ottoman Empire		  Russian Empire
Commanders and leaders
Sheikh Mansur
Kose Mustafa Pasha
Hussein Batal Pasha		 Russian Empire Yuri Bibikov
Units involved
Unknown Separate Caucasian Corps:[2]
14 Infantry Battalions
6 Dragoon Squadrons
7 Cossack Regiments
Strength
15,000
or
48,000[3]		 7,609[2]
26 cannons
Casualties and losses
630 killed[3]
Unknown		 2,202 killed
The campaign costed the Russian Empire more than 52,000 rubles and ended in a serious Russian defeat. As a result, Yuri Bibikov, the commander of the Separate Caucasian Corps, was dismissed and replaced by Anton de Balmen, and the army which Bibikov led into Circassia was awarded a special silver medal on a blue ribbon, with the inscription: “For loyalty”.[4]

The Anapa Campaign in the winter of 1790 was a military expedition launched by Russia to capture the fortress of Anapa. The expedition failed.
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  1. ^ Мусаев 2007, p. 73–74.
  2. ^ a b Мусаев 2007, p. 73.
  3. ^ a b Campaign in the North Caucasus in 1790 (in Russian)
  4. ^ Мусаев 2007, p. 74.