Crimean Blockade | |||||||
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Part of the Ottoman-Cossack Conflict | |||||||
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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 | |||||||
700 200[2] 34 boats[1] |
100,000+[1] Unknown | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
30 killed[1] |
Heavy combat losses; 400+ captured[1] |
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.