The Ottoman Empire opens with an attack…

October 1787 CE

The Ottoman Empire opens with an attack on the two fortresses near Kinburn, in southern Ukraine.

Russian General Alexander Suvorov holds off these two Ottoman sea-borne attacks in September and October 1787, thus securing the Crimea.

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Kinburn Fortress Ukraine View →

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Alexander Suvorov View → Catherine the Great View → Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor View →

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Austria, Archduchy of View → Russians (East Slavs) View → Turkish people View → Ottoman Empire View → France, (Bourbon) Kingdom of View → Britain, Kingdom of Great View → Novorossiya View → Taurida Oblast View →

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Russo-Turkish War of 1787–1792 View →

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