Pruth River Campaign

Pruth River Campaign
Part of the Great Northern War and the Russo-Turkish wars
Map of the Prut campaign
Date20 November 1710 – 23 July 1711
Location
Pruth River near Stănilești,
Ottoman Empire
(today Romania)
Result

Ottoman victory[1]

Belligerents

Ottoman Empire

Co-belligerent:
Sweden Swedish Empire		 Tsardom of Russia
Cossack Hetmanate Cossack Hetmanate (faction of Ivan Skoropadsky)
Moldavia Moldavia
Commanders and leaders
Baltacı Mehmet Pasha
Devlet II Giray		 Peter the Great
Boris Sheremetev
Carl Ewald von Rönne
Cossack Hetmanate Ivan Skoropadsky
Moldavia Dimitrie Cantemir
Strength

Total: 260,000–320,000

190,000[3]–250,000 Ottomans[4]
70,000 Crimean Tatars[5]

38,000 Russians[6]

30,000 Cossacks[7]
5,000 Moldavians[8]
Casualties and losses
Unknown 27,285 including 4,800 in battle[9]

The Russo-Ottoman War of 1710–1711,[a] also known as the Pruth River Campaign, was a brief military conflict between the Tsardom of Russia and the Ottoman Empire. The main battle took place during 18–22 July 1711 in the basin of the Pruth river near Stănilești after Tsar Peter I entered the Ottoman vassal Principality of Moldavia, following the Ottoman Empire’s declaration of war on Russia. The ill-prepared 38,000 Russians with 5,000 Moldavians, found themselves surrounded by the Ottoman Army under Grand Vizier Baltacı Mehmet Pasha. After three days of fighting and heavy casualties the Tsar and his army were allowed to withdraw after agreeing to abandon the fortress of Azov and its surrounding territory. The Ottoman victory led to the Treaty of the Pruth which was confirmed by the Treaty of Adrianople.[10]

  1. ^ Donald Quataert, The Ottoman Empire, 1700-1922, (Cambridge University Press, 2005), 41.
  2. ^ Treaty of Pruth, Alexander Mikaberidze, Conflict and Conquest in the Islamic World: A Historical Encyclopedia, Vol. 1, ed. Alexander Mikaberidze, (ABC-CLIO, 2011), 726.
  3. ^ A Global Chronology of Conflict: From the Ancient World to the Modern Middle East, Vol. II, ed. Spencer C. Tucker, (ABC-CLIO, 2010), 712.
  4. ^ Егоршина 2023, p. 72.
  5. ^ Егоршина 2023, p. 72-73.
  6. ^ Stevens C. Russia's Wars of Emergence 1460-1730. Routledge. 2013. p. 267
  7. ^ Osmanlı-Rus Savaşları A. B. Şirokorad.p;105 (SELENGE YAYINLARI)
  8. ^ Young 2004, p. 459.
  9. ^ Егоршина 2023, p. 740.
  10. ^ Mikaberidze 2011, p. 772.


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