Siege of Corfu (1798–1799)

Siege of Corfu
	Part of the War of the Second Coalition
	; Corfu city and its fortifications in 1800, engraving by André Grasset de Saint-Sauveur
Date	4 November 1798 – 3 March 1799
Location	Corfu, Corcyre, Ionian Islands39°37′26″N 19°55′17″E / 39.62389°N 19.92139°E
Result	Russo-Ottoman victory
Belligerents
Russian Empire; Ottoman Empire Pashalik of Yanina; ;	France
Commanders and leaders
Fyodor Ushakov ; Ivan Selivachev ; Kadir Bey ; Ali Pasha of Ioannina	Louis Chabot
Units involved
Russo-Ottoman Naval Squadron	Division du Levant; French Naval Division
Strength
6,200 to 8,000 ~1,700 Russians and Ottomans; ~4,500 Albanians; ; 12 ships of the line ; 11 frigates ; Several smaller vessels	3,700 to 4,000 ; 150 coastal guns (only battleworthy) ; 2 ships of the line ; 1 frigate ; 1 bomb vessel ; 1 brig and 4 small vessels
Casualties and losses
300 to 400 killed and wounded ~131 (Russians) ~169 (Ottomans, Albanians)	700 to 1,000; 2,931 capitulated; 1 ship of the line, 1 frigate, 1 aviso, 1 bomb ketch, 2 brigantines, 6 galleys, 1 canonnière, and 3 merchant ships captured; 636 guns and mortars captured

The Siege of Corfu (November 1798 – March 1799) was a military operation by a joint Russian and Turkish fleet against French troops occupying the fortified island of Corfu; ended in Coalition victory. Corfu fortifications had a strong reputation, but by the siege time they were in a parlous state.