Siege of Erivan (1808): Difference between revisions

Browse history interactively

← Previous edit

Content deleted Content added

VisualWikitext

Revision as of 04:23, 13 May 2018 edit Scottyoak2 (talk \| contribs) Extended confirmed users 23,684 edits m v1.43 - WP:WCW project (DEFAULTSORT without space after the comma) Tag: WPCleaner ← Previous edit		Latest revision as of 13:01, 29 June 2024 edit undo Kolya Muratov (talk \| contribs) Extended confirmed users 7,380 edits No edit summary
(43 intermediate revisions by 21 users not shown)
Line 1: {{Short description\|Siege during the Russo-Persian War in 1808}} {{For\|the 1804 battle\|Siege of Erivan (1804)}} {{Infobox military conflict \| conflict = Siege of Erivan \| image = Firman of Fath 'Ali Shah Qajar to General Gardane (Erivan fortress, military operations against the Russians, expectations of an end to hostilities and the capture of Gudovich).jpg ~~\|image=~~ \| image_size = \| caption = [[Firman]] of [[Fath-Ali Shah Qajar]] to [[General Gardane]] wherein, amongst others, suggested military operations against the Russians are written, and an indication that the Shah expects Gardane to report shortly an end to hostilities and the capture of Field Marshal [[Ivan Gudovich\|Gudovich]], December 1808, dated November-December 1808 ~~\|caption=~~ \| partof = the [[Russo-Persian War (~~1804-1813~~1804–1813)\|Russo-Persian War of ~~1804-1813~~1804–1813]] \| date = October–November 1808 \| place = [[Yerevan\|Erivan]], [[~~Qajar dynasty\|~~Qajar Iran]] (present-day Yerevan, [[Armenia]]) \| result = ~~Iranian~~Persian victory \| combatant1 =~~{{flagicon~~ [[File:Flag of Agha Mohammad Khan.svg\|~~Russia}}~~22px]] [[~~Russian~~Qajar ~~Empire~~Iran]] [[Erivan Khanate]] ~~\|combatant2=[[File:Flag of Agha Mohammad Khan.svg\|22px]] [[Qajar dynasty\|Qajar Iran]]~~ \| combatant2 = {{flagicon\|Russia}} [[Russian Empire]] \|commander1=[[Ivan Gudovich]]▼ \|~~commander2~~ commander1 = [[Abbas Mirza]]<br/>[[Hossein Khan Sardar]]<br/>[[Hasan Khan Qajar]] ▲\|~~commander1~~ commander2 = [[Ivan Gudovich]] ~~\|strength1=Unknown~~ \|~~strength2~~ strength1 = Unknown \| strength2 = Unknown ~~\|casualties1=3,000{{sfn\|Cronin\|2013\|page=58}}~~ \|~~casualties2~~ casualties1 = Unknown \| casualties2 = 3,000 casualties{{sfn\|Behrooz\|2013\|page=58}}<br />{{circa\|1,000}} killed{{sfn\|Mikaberidze\|2020\|page=438}} \| campaignbox = {{Campaignbox Russo-Persian War (~~1804-1813~~1804–1813)}} }} The '''~~Siege~~siege of Erivan''' took place in October and November 1808, during the [[Russo-Persian War (~~1804-1813~~1804–1813)\|Russo-Persian War of ~~1804-1813~~1804–1813]]. As in [[Siege of Erivan (1804)\|1804]], the Iranians successfully defended the city and forced the Russians to withdraw.{{sfn\|~~Cronin~~Behrooz\|2013\|page=58}}{{sfn\|Kettenhofen\|Bournoutian\|Hewsen\|1998\|pages=542-551}} The Russian campaign, launched late in the season and poorly conceived and executed, failed after a six-week siege of the Iranian [[Erivan Fortress\|fortress of Erivan]].{{sfn\|Mikaberidze\|2020\|page=438}} The Russians had suffered 3,000 casualties with almost 1,000 deaths.{{sfn\|Behrooz\|2013\|page=58}}{{sfn\|Mikaberidze\|2020\|page=438}} [[Alexander I of Russia\|Alexander I]] was severely dissatisfied; when he heard about Gudovich's failure, he named his expedition as "stupid", and without any sort of compassion, sent him into retirement.{{sfn\|Atkin\|1980\|page=77}}▼ ▲Russian field marshal [[Ivan Gudovich]] tried to excuse his defeat by claiming that French military officers had helped the Iranians, but Gudovich's superiors, as modern historian [[Alexander Mikaberidze]] explains, "knew better".{{sfn\|Mikaberidze\|2020\|page=438}} Tsar [[Alexander I of Russia\|Alexander I]] was severely dissatisfied; when he heard about Gudovich's failure, he named his expedition as "stupid", and without any sort of compassion, sent him into retirement.{{sfn\|Atkin\|1980\|page=77}} ==References== Line 27 ⟶ 32: ==Sources== * {{cite book\|last1=Atkin\|first1=Muriel\|title=Russia and Iran, 1780-1828\|date=1980\|publisher=University of Minnesota Press\|isbn=978-0816609246~~\|ref=harv~~}} * {{cite book\|last=Behrooz\|first=Maziar\|author-link=Maziar Behrooz\|chapter=From confidence to apprehension: early Iranian interaction with Russia\|title=Iranian-Russian Encounters: Empires and Revolutions Since 1800\|publisher=Routledge\|year=2013\|isbn=978-0415624336\| editor-given1 = Stephanie \| editor-surname1 = Cronin }} * {{cite book\|last1=Bournoutian\|first1=George A.\|title=The Khanate of Erevan Under Qajar Rule: 1795-1828\|date=1992\|publisher=Mazda Publishers\|isbn=978-0939214181\|pages=17–18\|url=\|ref=harv}}▼ * {{cite encyclopedia \| ~~article~~title = EREVAN \| last1 = Kettenhofen \| first1 = Erich \| last2 = Bournoutian \| first2 = George A. \| ~~authorlink2~~author-link2 = George A. Bournoutian \| last3 = Hewsen \| first3 = Robert H. \| ~~authorlink3~~author-link3 = Robert H. Hewsen \| encyclopedia = Encyclopaedia Iranica~~, Vol.~~ \|volume=VIII, Fasc. 5 \| pages = 542–551 \| ~~location~~url = ~~\| publisher =~~https://iranicaonline.org/articles/erevan-1 \| year = 1998 ~~\| isbn = \|ref=harv~~}}▼ * {{cite book\|editor1-last=Cronin\|editor1-first=Stephanie\|title=Iranian-Russian Encounters: Empires and Revolutions since 1800\|date=2013\|publisher=Routledge\|isbn=978-0415624336\|ref=harv}} * {{cite book \|last1=Mikaberidze \|first1=Alexander \|author1-link=Alexander Mikaberidze \|title=The Napoleonic Wars: A Global History \|date=2020 \|publisher=Oxford University Press \|isbn=978-0199951062}} ▲* {{cite encyclopedia \| article = EREVAN \| last1 = Kettenhofen \| first1 = Erich \| last2 = Bournoutian \| first2 = George A. \| authorlink2 = George A. Bournoutian \| last3 = Hewsen \| first3 = Robert H. \| authorlink3 = Robert H. Hewsen \| encyclopedia = Encyclopaedia Iranica, Vol. VIII, Fasc. 5 \| pages = 542–551 \| location = \| publisher = \| year = 1998 \| isbn = \|ref=harv}} ==Further reading== ▲* {{cite book\|last1=Bournoutian\|first1=George A.\|authorlink=George Bournoutian\|title=The Khanate of Erevan Under Qajar Rule: 1795-1828\|date=1992\|publisher=Mazda Publishers\|isbn=978-0939214181\|pages=17–18~~\|url=\|ref=harv~~}} {{coord missing\|Armenia}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Erivan, ~~Seige~~Siege of, 1808}} [[Category:~~Battles~~Sieges involving ~~Russia~~the Russian Empire]] [[Category:~~Battles~~Sieges involving ~~the Qajar dynasty~~Iran]] [[Category:~~Conflicts~~Battles in 1808]] [[Category:19th century in Armenia]] [[Category:1808 in the Russian Empire]] [[Category:Battles of the Russo-Persian Wars]] [[Category:1808 in Iran]] [[Category:~~History~~Sieges of Yerevan]]