Qualla: Battle of Athos https://qualla.com/battle-of-athos en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:30 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Battle of Athos https://qualla.com/battle-of-athos Battle of Athos: Introduction https://qualla.com/battle-of-athos/ Twenty monasteries sit on a finger of land that points south into the Aegean. Mount Athos is the third of three peninsulas that hang from the Chalkidiki, and for more than a thousand years the mountain has been governed by Orthodox monks who do not allow women, children, or female animals on its slopes. On 1 and 2 July 1807, while the monasteries went about their morning prayers, ten Russian battleships destroyed an Ottoman fleet off their eastern coast in a battle that almost no one alive today could place on a map. The fight was short. Vice Admiral Dmitry Senyavin, commanding the Russian Mediterranean squadron, lost no ships and 79 men. The Ottoman commander, Kapudan Pasha Seydi Ali, lost 8 of 20 ships and what one source estimates as 4,000 dead. Within days, the Treaties of Tilsit signed between Napoleon and Tsar Alexander I would end Russian operations in the Mediterranean entirely, and Senyavin's fleet would sail home to the Baltic. The victory off Athos was already a footnote before the news of it reached anywhere.

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]]> Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/x/1/e/battle-of-athos-wp/sx1e-battle-of-athos-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Battle of Athos: How a Russian Fleet Came to the Aegean https://qualla.com/battle-of-athos/ The Battle of Athos was a side effect of the Napoleonic Wars. In December 1806, the Ottoman Sultan Selim III, alarmed by Russian movements in the Balkans and persuaded by French diplomats, closed the Turkish Straits to Russian shipping and declared war on the Russian Empire. The ...

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]]> Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/x/1/e/battle-of-athos-wp/sx1e-battle-of-athos-how-a-russian-fleet-came-to-the-aegean.mp3 0:06 2 full Battle of Athos: A Game of Bait and Switch https://qualla.com/battle-of-athos/ Senyavin played a long maneuvering game. He repeatedly sent Rear Admiral Aleksey Greig with a few battleships off to Lemnos, an island roughly 41 miles west of the Dardanelles, hoping the Ottomans would think the Russians were spread thin and venture out. Finally, on 22 June, Sey...

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]]> Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/x/1/e/battle-of-athos-wp/sx1e-battle-of-athos-a-game-of-bait-and-switch.mp3 0:06 3 full Battle of Athos: Two Hours and Then a Calm https://qualla.com/battle-of-athos/ He found the Ottoman fleet west of Lemnos at dawn on 1 July. The Turkish ships were lined up in a single column heading north. Senyavin formed his battleships into two parallel rows of five and approached perpendicularly from the east, aiming to break the Ottoman line in the midd...

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]]> Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/x/1/e/battle-of-athos-wp/sx1e-battle-of-athos-two-hours-and-then-a-calm.mp3 0:06 4 full Battle of Athos: A Battle Erased by a Treaty https://qualla.com/battle-of-athos/ On the morning of 2 July, the Russians caught two Ottoman battleships and a sloop straggling near Thasos and drove them aground in the gulf west of Mount Athos, where the Turkish crews set them on fire to keep them from being captured. Two more damaged Ottoman ships were burned b...

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