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Pruth campaign

Pruth Campaign
Part of Great Northern War and Russo-Turkish wars
Map of the Prut campaign
Date 1710–1711
Location Pruth River
Result Decisive Ottoman victory
Treaty of Pruth
Treaty of Adrianople (1713)
Belligerents

 Ottoman Empire

Russian Empire Tsardom of Russia
Cossack Hetmanate (fraction of Ivan Skoropadsky)
 Moldavia
Commanders and leaders

Ottoman Empire Baltacı Mehmet Pasha

Autonomous Republic of Crimea Devlet II Giray
Russian Empire Peter the Great
Russian Empire Boris Sheremetev
Russian Empire Carl Ewald von Rönne
Ivan Skoropadsky
Moldavia Dimitrie Cantemir
Strength
200,000 38,000 Russians
5,000 Moldavians
Casualties and losses
Unknown Unknown

 Ottoman Empire

Ottoman Empire Baltacı Mehmet Pasha

The Russo-Ottoman War of 1710–11, also known as the Pruth River Campaign after the main event of the war, erupted as a consequence of the defeat of Sweden by the Russian Empire in the Battle of Poltava and the escape of the wounded Charles XII of Sweden and his large retinue to the Ottoman-held fortress of Bender. Incessant Russian demands for Charles's eviction were met with refusal from Sultan Ahmed III, prompting Peter to attack the Ottoman Empire, which in its turn declared war on Russia on 20 November 1710. Concurrently with these events, the Prince Dimitrie Cantemir of Moldavia and Peter the Great signed the Treaty of Lutsk (13 April 1711), by which Moldavia pledged to support Russia in its war against the Ottomans with troops and by allowing the Russian army to cross its territory and place garrisons in Moldavian fortresses. After having gathered near the Moldavian capital Iași, the combined army started on 11 July the march southwards along the Prut River with the intention of crossing the Danube and invade the Balkan peninsula.


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