Blockade of the Kerch strait
| Blockade of the Kerch strait | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Part of the Cossack raids | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
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Zaporozhian Cossacks Don Cossacks |
Crimean Khanate Nogai Horde Ottoman Empire | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
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Ivan Sirko Ataman Dergun Pavel Chesnochikhin |
Mehmed IV Giray Adil Giray Mehmed IV | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
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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 | ||||||
From 6 July to 14 September 1655, the Zaporozhian–Don Cossacks blockaded the Kerch strait to delay Crimean support for Poland-Lithuania.