The sea is littered with the corpses: how the Russians won the battle of Chesma

7 Jul 1770 ended the battle of Chesma -- one of the key events of the war between the Russian and Ottoman empires. Russian sailors, who used cunning tactics, managed to blow up and set fire to enemy ships. The Turkish fleet suffered catastrophic losses. As a result, the Russian squadron broke the enemy's communications in the Aegean sea and mounted the siege of the Dardanelles.

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