Sheikh Mansur movement

Sheikh Mansur movement
	Part of Chechen–Russian conflict, Russo–Circassian War and 1787–1792 Russo–Turkish war
	; Map of the Kuban River in October 1787 with Sheikh Mansur at the top left
Date	6 July 1785 – 22 June 1791
Location	North Caucasus and Russian Empire
Result	Russian victory
Belligerents
Sheikh Mansur movement; Including:; Chechnya; (1785–1787); Kabardians; (1785–1786); Circassia; (1787–1791); Kumyks; (1785–1787); Lezgins; (1785–1787); Other North Caucasians; Supported by: Ottoman Empire; (1787–1791);	Russian Empire; Including:; Cossacks; Kumyk Khanates; Other North Caucasian loyalists;
Commanders and leaders
Sheikh Mansur (WIA) (POW); Omar–Hadji (WIA); Osman–Hajji (WIA); Prince Alkhan †; Prince Atkhan †; Dol Mudarov (POW); Berd Khaptsug; Hadji Pasha; Ali Mustafa Pasha; Kose Pasha; Hussein Pasha; Tatal-Bey; Aji Mustafa Pasha; Batal Pasha (POW); Mustafa-Paşa (POW);	Catherine II; Grigory Potemkin; Pavel Potemkin; Peter Tekeli; Ivan Saltykov; Johann Fersen; Anton de Balmen; Ivan Gudovich; Pyotr Bagration (POW); Fyodor Apraksin; Ivan Zagryazhsky; Sergey Bulgakov; Anton Schitz; Ivan Depreradovich; Wrede Leontiev; Maxim Rebinder; Yuri Bibikov; Vasily Tomara; Ivan Veshnyakov; Bekovich Cherkassky; Ivan Lunin; Peter Sekhin; Ivan Kazin (WIA); Nikolai de Pieri †; Sergei Komarsky †;
Strength
Northeast Caucasians: 29,000; 10,000 Circassians and Nogais; 40,000	27,000–35,000
Casualties and losses
Total: 18,645; +7,344 killed; 4,301 wounded; 7,000 captured; 95 cannons captured or destroyed;	Total: 16,805; 9,494 killed; 6,809 wounded; 480 captured; 22 cannons captured or destroyed;

The Sheikh Mansur movement, was a major war between the Russian Empire and the North Caucasians, caused by the Chechen religious and military leader Sheikh Mansur, who opposed the Russian expansionist policies and wanted to unite the North Caucasians under a single Islamic state.

Starting off as a failed Russian campaign to capture Sheikh Mansur, who had spread Islam among the Chechens, it quickly turned to a region-wide anti-Russian insurgency. Although victorious at first, brutal Russian tactics, among them burning and destruction of villages as well as repeating military losses of the mountaineers, led to the decline of the insurgency, which saw Mansur lose many of his supporters. He left for Circassia in July 1787, where he suffered his final defeat during the siege of Anapa of 1791. Regardless, he is honored as a national hero among the Chechens and Circassians in the current day.