Battle of Larga

When

7 Jul 1770

Kind

Battle

Coordinates

46.65° N, 29.25° E

Description

1770 battle of the Russo-Turkish War of 1768–1774

Part of the Russo-Turkish War (1768–1774)

The Battle of (the) Larga was fought by a combined force of 65,000 Crimean Tatars and 15,000 Ottomans under Qaplan II Giray, against 38,000 Russians under Field-Marshal Rumyantsev on the banks of the Larga River, a tributary of the Prut River, in Moldavia, for eight hours on 18 July 1770.

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• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Battle of Larga; Russians defeat the Crimeans and Ottomans on the banks of the Larga River”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Die russische Armee besiegt ein 80.000 Mann starkes türkisches Heer in der Schlacht an der Larga”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “7 (18) июля — битва при Ларге”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page