Battle of Kurekdere

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Battle of Kurekdere
Part of the Crimean War
Date August 6, 1854 Location Gyumri, Armenia Result Russian Victory[1][2]
Belligerents
Ottoman Empire	Russian Empire
Strength
25,000, + 8,000-10,000 irregulars (not engaged), 78 guns[3][4]	21,000, + 4,000 irregulars, 64 guns[3][4]
Casualties and losses
3,500 killed and wounded, 2,000 prisoners[3][4]	3,000 killed and wounded[3][4]

Crimean War Oltenitza – Citate – Silistra – Sinop – Kurekdere – Petropavlovsk – Alma – Sevastopol – Balaclava – Inkerman – Eupatoria – Taganrog – Chernaya River – Kars – Malakhoff – Kinburn

The Battle of Kurekdere took place in 1854 as part of the Crimean War. It started when the Ottoman army of Kars ^{[disambiguation needed]} marched towards Gyumri to attack the Russian force, already weakened with detachments. The battle was related with great spirit and the defeat of the Turkish army by the Russian forces.^[1]

In accounting the Russians for the defeat of an army nearly 40,000 Ottoman forces of all arms by a hostile force of less than one-half that number, it is not sufficient to say that the management of the whole battle on the side of the Turks was a series of blunders from the first to last, strategical errors might have protracted the mission and have added to the cost of a victory.^[1][5] Four months after the battle of Kurekdere no military operations took place. Some European officers there were strongly advised a forward movement on Tiflis.^[1]

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