Peter the Great Captures Azov
1696
After a failed attempt the previous year, the young Russian tsar personally led a second campaign against the Ottoman fortress of Azov on the Don. With newly built galleys and foreign engineers, he took the fort, Russia's first warm-water port on the Black Sea. Peter had tasted empire and wanted more.
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