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Battle Of Igren
The Battle of Igren is a semi-legendary battle that took place between the Tatar army of Crimean Khanate and the Zaporozhian Cossacks of Ivan Sirko, near Stanovoy and other adjacent islands, :ru:Самарский район (Днепр), Samara River on :ru:Игренский полуостров, Igren Peninsula, during summer of 1660. Prelude Tatars conducted a raid, during which they captured 15,000 people and were planning to go back to Crimea with the captives. The Tatar army numbered around 10,000. Battle Tatars were going to cross the :ru:Самарский район (Днепр), Samara River in order to return to Crimea with their exploits. Ivan Sirko knew about this, and with his Cossacks set up an ambush for an incoming Tatar army. As the Tatars were crossing the river, Sirko made his battle cry and with Cossacks launched a surprise attack on the unsuspecting Tatar army. Cossacks inflicted a crushing defeat on the vastly more numerous Tatar army, slaughtering it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ivan Sirko
Ivan Dmytrovych Sirko ( – August 11, 1680) was a Zaporozhian Cossack military leader, Koshovyi Otaman of the Zaporozhian Host and putative co-author of the famous semi-legendary Cossack letter to the Ottoman sultan that inspired the major painting '' Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks'' by the 19th-century artist Ilya Repin. Early life and origin The first biography of Ivan Sirko, written by Dmytro Yavornytsky in 1890, gave Sirko's place of birth as the sloboda of Merefa near the modern-day city of Kharkiv. Historian Yuriy Mytsyik states that this could not be the case. In his book ''Otaman Ivan Sirko''Otaman Ivan Sirko by Yuriy Mytsyik (1999) he writes that Merefa was established only in 1658 (more than 40 years after the birth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
