EuropeEvent

Russian Capture of Bar

When: 1768
Where: fortress of Bar
Episodes: 1

On 20 June 1768 the Russian Army captured the fortress of Bar, a fortified town near the Ottoman border where the Bar Confederation had been founded that February. The fall of the fortress drove surviving confederates toward the Turkish border, where pursuing Russian troops and Zaporozhian Cossacks clashed with Ottoman janissaries, an episode that fed the escalation into the Russo-Turkish War of 1768–1774.

Episodes

20 June 1768 · fortress of BarRussian Capture of the Fortress of Bar
On 20 June 1768 the Russian Army captured the fortress of Bar, from which the Bar Confederation had operated.

Background and detail

The Russian Capture. On 20 June 1768, the Russian Army captured the fortress of Bar. When one band of surviving confederates fled toward the Turkish border, pursuing troops, including Zaporozhian Cossacks, clashed with janissary garrison troops. The Ottoman Empire had until then enjoyed its longest period of peace with Europe in its history (1739–1768), and the confrontation at the border helped draw it into the war that followed.

Sources

Russo-Turkish War (1768–1774) Wikipedia, revision of 2026-08-25
Bar, Ukraine Wikipedia, revision of 2026-09-06

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