siege, early modern
Capture of Rasht
Capture of Rasht was a siege conducted in 1722 in what is now Iran; it ran into the following year. Its exact site is not recorded; the atlas places it at its recorded location. It was part of Q1418582. The recorded result: Russian victory.
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Record
| Date | 1722 (year precision) to 1723 | |
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| Place | Iran 37.276N, 49.589E | |
| Kind | Siege, early modern | |
| Territorial change | Russians gain hold of the Caspian town of Rasht for about ten years | |
| Strength | Two battalions of regular troops.; Caspian Flotilla | 15,000 untrained and inadequately armed troops, levied mostly from peasantry. |
| Casualties and losses | Unknown | About or over 1,000 |
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Nearest engagements
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In the same war
- Before: Battle of Derbent 1722
Elsewhere in 1722
- Battle of Gulnabad Iran
- Siege of Isfahan Iran
- Battle of Winnepang Canada
- Battle of Cape Lopez Gabon
Capture of Rasht is one of 2,009 engagements of the 18th century in the atlas and one of 157 in present-day Iran.
Sources
Identity, coordinates, dates and the war from Wikidata Q21187309, released under CC0. Result, belligerents, commanders, strength and casualties from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article Peter the Great's capture of Rasht, revision 1382468332, read 2026-11-14, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0; the article's text is not reproduced here. Present-day country and state from Natural Earth. Dates before 1582 follow the Julian calendar as recorded.