Forced Mobilization

in the campaign “Military Annexation of the Crimean Khanate (1783)”

The use of Ukrainian Cossacks as a military resource for storming Turkish fortresses and consolidating imperial claims to Crimea: at Ochakiv "the 'loyal Cossacks' took part in the storming of the fortress"[1], and in the storming of Izmail "in total over 6 thousand Black Sea Cossacks took part in the battle"[2].

ID: C0035.T0049
Technique:  Forced Mobilization
Start: April 1783
End: December 1783
Contributors: decolonial.ist project

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