Siege of Ochakov Begins
- When
- 1788
- Where
- Ochakov Fortress
- Part of
- Fall of Özi to the Russians
Russian forces under Potemkin, Suvorov, Repnin, and Möller besieged the Ottoman-held fortress in 1788.
In 1788 Russian forces led by commander in chief Prince Grigory Potemkin besieged the city, with General Alexander Suvorov—called from near Kinburn Spit with his Phanagorian Regiment—commanding the left wing until injury and replacement, Prince Nikolai Repnin the center, and Ivan Möller the right wing. The city was held by Ottoman troops under Hüseyin Pasha, massively assisted at sea by Hasan Pasha. The fortress was an irregular quadrangle of low bastions with a dry moat and glacis on the landward side and a simple stone wall on the sea side; by the siege's start it was a strong fence unable to withstand an energetic storming for long.
Sources
- Siege of Ochakov (1788) Wikipedia, revision of 2026-08-22
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