A detachment of Cossacks in Russian service, …
Years: 1768 - 1768
September
A detachment of Cossacks in Russian service, not content to see the Polish enemy flee over the border, enters Balta (on Ottoman territory) during the pursuit of a Polish Bar Confederation force.
The Ottoman Empire accuses the troops of having conducted the slaughter of its subjects in the town of Balta, a charge denied by the Russian authorities.
Locations
People
Groups
- Russians (East Slavs)
- Cossacks
- Ottoman Empire
- Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Commonwealth of the Two Nations)
- Britain, Kingdom of Great
- Russian Empire
- Bar Confederation
