Peter the Great's capture of Rasht
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Peter the Great's capture of Rasht (also spelled Resht), occurred between December 1722 and late March 1723 amidst the successful spree of campaigns of Peter the Great during the Russo-Persian War (1722-1723). The capture of Rasht brought the Caspian Sea town alongside the rest of Gilan into Russian possession for a decade, until the Treaty of Resht of 1732, when they would be returned.
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Part of the Russo-Persian War (1722-1723) | |||||||||
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Russian Empire | Safavid Empire | ||||||||
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Peter the Great Colonel Shipov F.I. Soimonov | Tahmasp II | ||||||||
Strength | |||||||||
Two battalions of regular troops. Caspian Flotilla | 15,000 untrained and inadequately armed troops, levied mostly from peasantry.[2] | ||||||||
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[citation needed] | About or over 1,000[1][3] |
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