The Battle of Sultanabad (Persian: نبرد سلطان‌آباد) occurred on February 13, 1812 between the Russian Empire and the Persian Empire. In the resulting battle, the Russians were routed.

The Persians, numerically superior,[3] were led by Abbas Mirza and fought the Russians, led by Pyotr Kotlyarevsky.[citation needed] A Persian offensive into Georgia, with its British and French-trained Nezam-e Jadid infantry,[4] initiated the battle. The Persians had also obtained European cannons from the French.[4]

The Persians won the battle by moving faster than the Russians and by attacking them near their camp with the reformed European-style infantry.[5] However, the Battle of Aslanduz and the Siege of Lankaran followed soon after, shifting the momentum of the war firmly in Russia's favor.[5]

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References

  1. ^ "Battle Between Persians and Russians". State Hermitage Museum. Retrieved 19 September 2009.
  2. ^ a b c d Atkin, Muriel (1980). Russia and Iran, 1780–1828. University of Minnesota Press. p. 137. ISBN 978-0816609246.
  3. ^ a b c Denis Wright, The English Amongst the Persians: Imperial Lives in Nineteenth-Century Iran, (I.B.Tauris, 2001), 52.
  4. ^ a b Building a new Army:Military reform in Qajar Iran, Stephanie Cronin, War and Peace in Qajar Persia, ed. Roxane Farmanfarmiaian, (Routledge, 2008), 53.
  5. ^ a b Serim (2021-12-17). "Anglo-Persian Relations: The British Military Mission to Persia, 1810-1815". www.qdl.qa. Retrieved 2023-05-30.

Bibliography

  • Roxane Farmanfarmiaian (editor). (2008) War and Peace in Qajar Persia: Implications Past and Present. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-42119-5
  • Journal of the British Institute of Persian Studies, Volume 36, Tehran [which?] Author, Article Title, page numbers needed
  • Atkin, Muriel. (1980). Russia and Iran, 1780 - 1828. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. ISBN 978-0-8166-5697-4
  • Kazemzadeh, Firuz. (1974). Russian Penetration of the Caucasus. In Russian Imperialism: From Ivan the Great to the Revolution, ed. Taras Hunczak. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. ISBN 0-8135-0737-5