Battle of Sitka | |||||||
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Part of the Russian colonization of the Americas and the American Indian Wars | |||||||
Battle of Sitka by Louis S. Glanzman, 1988 | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
Russia | Tlingit Kiks.ádi Clan | ||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Alexandr Baranov Yuri Lisyansky | Katlian | ||||||
Strength | |||||||
150+ Russians 400 Aleuts 14 guns | 750–800 (estimated) | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
12 killed, many wounded | Unknown |
The Battle of Sitka (Russian: Сражение при Ситке; 1804) was the last major armed conflict between Russians and Alaska Natives, and was initiated in response to the destruction of a Russian trading post two years before. The primary combatant groups were the Kiks.ádi ("Ones of Kíks", Frog/Raven) Clan of Sheetʼká Xʼáatʼi (Baranof Island) of the Tlingit nation and agents of the Russian-American Company assisted by the Imperial Russian Navy.