Battle of Tendra

The Battle off Tendra
The Battle off Tendra
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Battle of Tendra
	Part of Russo-Turkish War (1787–1792)
	; Battle of Tendra; late 18th century; By Afanasy de Paldo
Date	8–9 September 1790
Location	Tendra Spit
Result	Russian victory
Belligerents
Russian Empire	Ottoman Empire
Commanders and leaders
Fyodor Ushakov	Hussein Pasha
Strength
10 ships of the line; 6 frigates; 1 bomb ship; 1 schooner; 2 fire ships; 17 sailing ships; ~826 cannons	14 ships of the line; 8 frigates; 23 smaller vessels; 1,300+ cannons
Casualties and losses
21–25 killed, 25 wounded	2 ships of the line in the battle; 1 ship of the line and several small vessels sunk in the retreat; 7 small craft captured, of which 3 were taken by privateers; 2,000 men killed, wounded or captured

The Battle of Tendra (or the battle of Khadjibey^[4]) was a naval action fought on 8 and 9 September 1790 (28 and 29 August, O.S.) in the Black Sea as part of the Russo-Turkish War (1787–1792). It ended in a decisive victory for Ushakov's Russians over the Ottomans.^[3]

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Novikov 1948, pp. 120, 122.
^ ^a ^b ^c "ТЕНДРОВСКОЕ СРАЖЕНИЕ • Great Russian Encyclopedia – Electronic version". old.bigenc.ru. Retrieved 2023-06-27.
^ ^a ^b ^c Sozaev E. Tredrea J. Russian Warships in the Age of Sail 1696–1860: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth Publishing, 2010. P. 92
^ Petrushevsky 1884.