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The first Azov campaign began in the spring of 1695. Peter the Great ordered his army (31,000 men and 170 guns) to advance towards Azov. The army comprised crack regiments and the Don Cossacks and was divided into three units under the command of Franz Lefort, Patrick Gordon and Avtonom Golovin. Supplies were shipped down the Don from Voronezh. In 1693, the Ottoman garrison of the fortress was 3,656 of whom 2,272 were Janissaries. Between June 27 and July 5, the Russians blocked Azov from land but they could not control the river and prevent resupply. After two unsuccessful attacks on August 5 and September 25, the siege was lifted on October 1.

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  • Azov campaigns (1695–96)
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  • The first Azov campaign began in the spring of 1695. Peter the Great ordered his army (31,000 men and 170 guns) to advance towards Azov. The army comprised crack regiments and the Don Cossacks and was divided into three units under the command of Franz Lefort, Patrick Gordon and Avtonom Golovin. Supplies were shipped down the Don from Voronezh. In 1693, the Ottoman garrison of the fortress was 3,656 of whom 2,272 were Janissaries. Between June 27 and July 5, the Russians blocked Azov from land but they could not control the river and prevent resupply. After two unsuccessful attacks on August 5 and September 25, the siege was lifted on October 1.
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Partof
  • the Russo-Turkish Wars
Date
  • 1694(xsd:integer)
Commander
  • Peter the Great
  • Suleiman II
Caption
  • Taking of Azov, a 17th-century Dutch engraving
Result
  • 1(xsd:integer)
  • 2(xsd:integer)
combatant
  • Russian Empire
  • Ottoman Empire
Place
  • Moldavia, Wallachia, Armenia, Caucasus, and the Dardanelles
Conflict
  • Azov campaigns
abstract
  • The first Azov campaign began in the spring of 1695. Peter the Great ordered his army (31,000 men and 170 guns) to advance towards Azov. The army comprised crack regiments and the Don Cossacks and was divided into three units under the command of Franz Lefort, Patrick Gordon and Avtonom Golovin. Supplies were shipped down the Don from Voronezh. In 1693, the Ottoman garrison of the fortress was 3,656 of whom 2,272 were Janissaries. Between June 27 and July 5, the Russians blocked Azov from land but they could not control the river and prevent resupply. After two unsuccessful attacks on August 5 and September 25, the siege was lifted on October 1. Another Russian army (120,000 men, mostly cavalrymen, Streltsy, Ukrainian Cossacks and Kalmyks) under the command of Boris Sheremetev set out for the lower reaches of the Dnieper to take the Ottoman forts there. The main fort at Gazi-Kerman was taken when its powder magazine blew up, as well as Islam-Kerman, Tagan and Tavan, but the Russians were not able to hold the area and withdrew most of their forces. By the Treaty of Constantinople (1700) the remaining Russians were withdrawn and the lower Dnieper was declared a demilitarized zone.
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