The Battle of Kagul[1][4] or Cahul (Russian: Сражение при Кагуле [Battle of the Kagul], Turkish: Kartal Ovası Muharebesi [Battle of the Eagle Plain]) occurred on 1 August 1770 (21 July 1770 in Julian Calendar) during the Russo-Turkish War of 1768–1774. It was the decisive and most important land battle of the war and one of the largest battles of the 18th century.[8] It was fought in Moldavia, near the village of Frumoasa (now Cahul, Moldova), nearly a month after the Russian victory at Larga.
While the army of the Ottomans and its Crimean Tatar vassals greatly outnumbered the Russian force opposite them, the Russian commander, Field Marshal Pyotr Rumyantsev, deftly arranged his far smaller army in solid infantry squares and surprisingly chose to go on the offensive against the allied forces. Assisting it is the superb coordination and firing rapidity of the Russian artillery, which effectively neutralized the Ottoman artillery and largely negated the numerical superiority of the Ottoman army. The result was a decisive Russian victory.
^ abcdArcher, Christon (2002). World History of Warfare. U of Nebraska Press. p. 444. ISBN 9780803244238.
^ abStone, David (2006). A Military History of Russia. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 80. ISBN 0-275-98502-4.
^Uzunçarşılı, İsmail Hakkı (2003). Osmanlı Tarihi IV, Cilt 2: Kısım XVIII. Türk Tarih Kurumu, Ankara. pp. 385–389. ISBN 975-16-0016-2.
^ abcBodart 1908, p. 251.
^Koryshko 2016.
^СРАЖЕНИЕ НА РЕКЕ КАГУЛ, "Cyrill and Methodius" Encyclopedia (in Russian)
^Clodfelter, Warfare and Armed Conflicts: A Statistical Encyclopedia of Casualty and other numbers. P.93
^Five victorious wars that became fateful for Russia
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