Battle of the Alma (1628)
| Battle of the Alma | |||||||||
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| Part of the Crimean campaign (1628) and the Ottoman-Crimean-Zaporozhian conflict (1624-1629) | |||||||||
Cossack hetman Mykhailo Doroshenko | |||||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
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Zaporozhian Cossacks Supporters of Mehmed III |
Budjak Horde Ottoman Empire Supporters of Canibek Giray | ||||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
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Mykhailo Doroshenko † Olifer Holub † Moyzhenitsa Shahin Giray | Khan Temir (WIA) | ||||||||
| Strength | |||||||||
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4,000 Cossacks Several artillery pieces | Way more than the Cossacks | ||||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||||
| 100 to 1,000 killed |
200 killed 12 cannons | ||||||||
The battle of the Alma (Ukrainian: Битва на Альмі) was a battle that took place on 31 of May, 1628 between a 4,000-strong army of the Zaporozhian Cossacks led by hetman Mykhailo Doroshenko and a colonel Olifer Holub, and the Budjak Horde army of Khan Temir, supported by the Ottoman janissaries. In the course of battle, Zaporozhian Cossacks defeated the army of Khan Temir, which allowed them to lift the siege of Bakhchysarai. Despite the victory in this battle, both Mykhailo Doroshenko and Olifer Holub were killed, and the Cossack campaign itself eventually ended in a failure.