Blockade of the Kerch Strait

Blockade of the Kerch Strait
Part of the Cossack raids
Date6 July – 14 September 1655
Location
Eastern Crimea
Result Taman, Caffa and Sudak sacked by Cossacks. Cossack attack on Kerch repulsed by Tatars.
Belligerents
Zaporozhian Cossacks
Don Cossacks		 Crimean Khanate
Ottoman Empire Ottoman Empire
Commanders and leaders
Ivan Sirko
Ataman Dergun
Pavel Chesnochikhin		 Mehmed IV Giray
Adil Giray
Strength
200–700
700–2,030
34–43 boats		 Unknown
Ottoman Empire Unknown
100,000 (Heavily exaggerated)
Casualties and losses
30 killed Unknown
400 Tatar civilians enslaved

From 6 July to 14 September 1655, the Zaporozhian–Don Cossacks blockaded the Kerch Strait to delay Crimean support for Poland-Lithuania.

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