Cossack raid on Sinop | |||||||||
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Part of the Cossack raids and Cossack naval campaigns | |||||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||||
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Strength | |||||||||
2,000[1] 40 chaikas[2] |
60 boats (Blocking at Ochakov)[3] | ||||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||||
200 killed[4][1] 20 captured[1][2] 18 boats sunk[4] | Entire garrison killed[2][4] | ||||||||
Thousands of Ottoman civilians killed (Per 17th century chronicles)[5] |
The Cossack raid on Sinop was a Cossack attack led by Cossack leader Petro Konashevych-Sahaidachny with the goal of plundering a major Ottoman city on the shore of north Anatolia, which occurred on August 1614.[6]
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