The Russo-Turkish War, 1768-1774: Catherine II and the Ottoman Empire

Cover
Contents
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