A British naval fleet sails to Constantinople …
Years: 1807 - 1807
A British naval fleet sails to Constantinople (Istanbul) in 1807 and orders the Porte to evict the French ambassador and make peace with Russia, but the sultan refuses.
Constantinople's citizens rally and fire a thousand guns at the fleet, which withdraws with severe damages.
Locations
Groups
- Ottoman Empire
- Moldavia (Ottoman vassal), Principality of
- Wallachia (Ottoman vassal), Principality of
- Russian Empire
- France, (first) Empire of
- Britain (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland)
