✦ History

Part of Crimean War

Siege of Kars (1855)

June 1 – November 29, 1855 · Siege of Kars (1855)

Result Russian victory

Nikolay Muravyov's Russians besieged Kars, failed to storm it, and starved its Ottoman garrison into surrender.

On the map Contemporaries

Allies

Russia

United Kingdom
Ottoman Empire
Russian Empire
Richard Guyon military commander György Kmety military commander Sir William Williams, 1st Baronet, of Kars military commander Christopher Teesdale military commander Gürcü Mehmed Vâsıf Pasha military commander
Nikolay Muravyov-Karsky military commander

Strength and losses

Strength
33,000c. 16,000
Casualties
18,500
Captured
c. 7,000
Guns lost
114–136
Strength
25,725
Guns
96

Units

Kars garrison (1855)
Russian Separate Caucasus Corps (1853–1856)

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