Crimean Blockade (1655)

Crimean Blockade
	Part of the Cossack raids
Date	6 July – 14 September 1655
Location	Eastern Crimea
Result	Cossack victory
Belligerents
Zaporozhian Cossacks; Don Cossacks	Crimean Khanate; Nogai Horde; Ottoman Empire
Commanders and leaders
Ivan Sirko; Ataman Dergun; Pavel Chesnochikhin	Mehmed IV Giray; Adil Giray; Mehmed IV
Strength
200–700; 700–2,030; 34–43 boats	100,000; Unknown (but more than Cossacks)
Casualties and losses
30 killed	Heavy combat losses;; 400+ captured

The Crimean Blockade was enacted by the Zaporozhian-Don Cossacks with the goal of delaying the Crimean support for Poland-Lithuania, from 6 July to 14 September 1655.^[2]

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