Episode 1 of 4
Siege Opens with Reinforcements and Naval Bombardment
- When
- 22 August 1761
- Where
- Fortress of Kolberg, Brandenburg-Prussian Pomerania
- Part of
- Fall of Kolberg
Reinforced in mid-August, Rumyantsev laid siege to Kolberg on 22 August; the Russian Baltic fleet bombarded the town from the sea on 27 August.
After 3,000 Russian troops reinforced Rumyantsev in mid-August, he laid siege to Kolberg on 22 August 1761. On 27 August, the entire Russian Baltic fleet—21 ships of the line, three frigates, and three bomb vessels, all arrived the day before—bombarded Kolberg from the sea. The Russians, a weaker force, had taken quarter in nearby Köslin (now Koszalin) on 23 June while awaiting reinforcements.
Sources
- Siege of Kolberg (Seven Years' War) Wikipedia, revision of 2026-08-22
Machine-drafted from the cited Wikipedia passages and checked by a reviewing model, not by a human editor. Every passage cites the revision it was written from; dates and places follow those passages.