Battle of Rymnik
| Battle of Râmnic | |||||||||
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| Part of the Russo-Turkish War (1787-1792) | |||||||||
 Clash between Russo-Austrian and Turkish troops in the Battle of Rymnik |
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 Russia Austria
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 Ottoman Empire
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Alexander Suvorov Josias of Coburg
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Cenaze Hasan Pasha Kemenkesh Mustafa Pasha
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25,000
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100,000 | ||||||||
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| less than 1,000 | nearly 20,000 | ||||||||
25,000
The Battle of Râmnic (Turkish: Boze Savaşı) on September 22, 1789 took place in Wallachia, near Râmnicu Sărat (now in Romania), during the Russo-Turkish War of 1787-1792. The Russian general Alexander Suvorov, acting together with the Habsburg general Prince Josias of Coburg, attacked the main Ottoman army under Grand Vizier Cenaze Hasan Pasha. The result was a crushing Russo-Austrian victory.
In September 1789, the Ottoman vizier Cenaze Hasan Pasha, vowing revenge for their forces' defeat at Focșani, raised an army of more than 100,000 soldiers, mostly Janissaries, to defeat the combined Austro-Russian armies under generals Alexander Suvorov of Russia and Prince Josias of Coburg. Sending his troops into a grueling night march, Pasha then attacked the 18,000-strong Austrian detachment. Taking into account Josias's numbers and their poor performance in the war, specifically after the Battle of Karánsebes, the Pasha was convinced that he could defeat this force easily. However, once he heard of this, Suvorov and his 7,000-strong force marched to their aid, covering about 100 kilometers in two and a half days, arriving on the eve of the battle. As the commander-in-chief of all Russo-Austrian forces in the front, he quickly took command of the combined Austro-Russian army.
Suvorov divided his combined army into two columns to advance towards the Ottoman formations at 2300 hours, and next morning, after crossing the river Râmnicul Sărat, attacked. As they advanced they crippled the enemy artillery and adopted infantry square formations to repel massive enemy cavalry counterattacks which tried to split his army in two. This done, the army stormed the enemy camp and routed them completely.
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