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Siege of Corfu
Siege of Corfu was a siege conducted on 4 November 1798 at Corfu, in what is now Greece. It was part of the War of the Second Coalition, which ran from 1798 to 1802. The recorded result: Russo-Ottoman victory.
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Record
| Date | 4 November 1798 | |
|---|---|---|
| Place | Corfu, Greece 39.624N, 19.921E | |
| Part of | War of the Second Coalition (1798 to 1802) | |
| Kind | Siege, Revolutionary and Napoleonic | |
| Result | Russo-Ottoman victory | |
| Belligerents | Russian Empire; Ottoman Empire; Pashalik of Yanina | French First Republic |
| Commanders | Fyodor Ushakov; Ivan Selivachev; Kadir Bey; Ali Pasha of Ioannina | Louis Chabot |
| 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 |
Nearest engagements
- Siege of Corfu 1716, 0.8 km
- Siege of Corfu 1537, 8.7 km
- Action of 8 July 1716 1716, 13 km
- Siege of Butrint 1798, 16 km
- Battle of Elaia–Kalamas 1940, 19 km
In the same war
- Before: Battle of Nicopolis 23 October 1798
- After: Battle of Trebbia 1799
- All 39 engagements of War of the Second Coalition
Elsewhere in 1798
- Battle of the Nile Egypt
- Battle of the Pyramids Egypt
- Siege of Malta Malta
- Battle of Shubra Khit Egypt
- Battle of Grauholz Switzerland
Siege of Corfu is one of 1,496 engagements of the 18th century in the atlas and one of 274 in present-day Greece.
Sources
Identity, coordinates, dates and the war from Wikidata Q4120811, released under CC0. Result, belligerents, commanders, strength and casualties from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article Siege of Corfu (1798–1799), revision 1382487565, 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.