the two empires should have been pitted against each other in war, and we note that sultan abdulhamide had already been defeated once, he already understood how well the russians knew how to fight and beat him. but nevertheless, sooner or later he had to give in to the pressure of his own. and european diplomats. ochakov, among the turkish fortresses in terms of artillery power, was inferior only from the kherson harbor to the black sea, and inevitably came under fire from his cannons. on the eve of the events of 1788 , french engineers strengthened this turkish outpost using the latest state-of-the-art military structures. turkey receives a million livres a year in order to strengthen its troops, strengthen your fortresses. it is protected everywhere, but it... is very different from the fortress, which at one time was already a small turkish fortress, which was taken from the gate in minich, in fact it’s quite easy . under the walls of otchakov, they did not agree on how to take the fortress by storm or a subsequent long siege; commander-in-chief grigory potemkin and his subordinate