The Russo-Turkish War, 1768-1774: Catherine II and the Ottoman Empire
Table of contents :
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Preface
Map
1 The Russian Empire at a Strategic Crossroads, 1762–1768
Catherine II and the Polish project
Haidamak revolt
The Balta incident
2 The Ottoman Empire and its Frontier in Pontic Europe
“Exhaustion and decline”
Decentralization and army organization
Decentralization and military finance
Ottoman military “obsolescence”
Border defenses
Moldavia and Wallachia under phanariot rule
The Ottoman Balkans, Bucak, and Ochakov
The Crimean Khanate
The Kuban steppe and the Caucasus
The decision for war
3 The Russian Empire and its Black Sea Steppe Frontier
Recruit levies and the soul tax
Provincial administration and staffing
Security, colonization, and economic development in Russia’s Black Soil south
The Don Cossack Host
Frontier populations and the Black Sea trade
Left Bank Ukraine: the fate of the Hetmanate
From Sloboda Ukraine to the Khar’kov and New Russian governorates
The Zaporozhian Cossack Host
Cameralist management of subject nationalities and frontier populations
4 The Russian Army at Midcentury
The Russian army in the Seven Years’ War
Military reform on the eve of Catherine II’s Turkish War
The training ordinances of 1763
Doctrine and innovation
5 The Khotin Campaign, 1769
The Russian war plan
The Ottoman war plan
The Tatar invasion of New Russia
The First Army, April–May 1769
The recovery of Azov and Taganrog
Golitsyn’s second attempt on Khotin, July–August 1
The fall of Khotin, August 29–September 10
The First Army in Moldavia, September–December
Operations against the Bar Confederates
The Caucasus in 1769–1770
6 The Year of Victories, 1770
The winter war in Moldavia and Wallachia
The First Army in winter quarters
Rumiantsev’s new training ordinances
Riabaia Mogila
Larga
Kagul and Kartal
The Second Army and the siege of Bender
Ismail, Kiliia, Akkirman, and Ibrail
Orlov’s Aegean expedition
The Morean revolt
Chios and Çeşme
Austria alarmed, 1770
7 Stalemate and Break-Out
A war of posts
Conquest of Crimea
Russian naval power in the eastern Mediterranean
The defeat of the Bar Confederation
The First Partition of Poland
The peace talks at Giurgiu and Bucharest
The strains of war
The Danube Front in 1773
The break-out
8 Peace, Reforms, and Provocations
The Treaty of Kuchuk-Kainarji
The reform of provincial government
Liquidation of the Don and Zaporozhian Hosts
Ukraine
New Russia
The Black Sea Fleet
The army under Potemkin
The issue of Russian “protection” of the Christian millets
The problem of Poland
The last days of the Crimean Khanate
The annexation of Crimea
Triumphal march
Conclusions
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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