England contributed a young subaltern named Newton and the naval architect Samuel Bentham, brother to the economist, who for his colonel's commission was proving a godsend to the Russian fleet.

Overwhelming Russian naval power would always be within a few hundred miles of our coast.

Under the Treaty of Hünkar Iskelesi of 1833, the Bosporus and Dardanelles straits were to be closed on Russian demand to naval vessels of other powers.

The northwestern territory was part of the gateway and buffer zone ( with Estonia ) to and from the imperial Russian capital Petrograd ( Saint Petersburg ), via the Gulf of Finland towards the Kronstadt naval base and the Karelian Isthmus.

Despite this naval defeat, it was on the ground that this war would be won, Napoleon inflicted the Austrian and Russian Empires one of their greatest defeats at Austerlitz ( also known as the " Battle of the Three Emperors " on 2 December 1805 ), destroying the Third Coalition.

This war began to involve the major European powers and exposed New Zealand and Australia to a possible external threat from Russian naval forces.

Debates in Parliament had included expressions of concern about Russian naval expansion in the northern Pacific, pointed out that the sole naval defence consisted of one 24 gun frigate, and the time it would take for Britain to come to the colonies aid.

The need for an alternative non-Russian source of naval stores is indicated by the information from the British Ambassador in Copenhagen, Hugh Elliott, who wrote to Foreign Secretary, Lord Carmarthen on 12 August 1788: “ There is no Topick so common in the Mouths of the Russian Ministers, as to insist on the Facility with which the Empress, when Mistress of the Baltic, either by Conquest, Influence, or Alliance with the other two Northern Powers, could keep England in a State of Dependence for its Baltic Commerce and Naval Stores ”.

* 1827 – Battle of Navarino – a combined Turkish and Egyptian armada is defeated by British, French, and Russian naval force in the port of Navarino in Pylos, Greece.

Second row: Brigadier general ( United States ) | Brigadier General Harry H. Vaughan, Truman's confidant and military aide ; Russian interpreter Charles Bohlen, Truman naval aide James K. Vardaman, Jr., and ( partially obscured ) Charles Griffith Ross.

Chinese naval technology has improved, in part due to Russian assistance.

Russia aims to turn the Russian naval base in Tartus into a permanent naval base.

In 1900 the crew of the Russian coast defense ship General-Admiral Graf Apraksin as well as stranded Finnish fishermen were saved in the Gulf of Finland because of exchange of distress telegrams between two radiostations, located at Hogland island and inside a Russian naval base in Kotka.

* March 27 – The arrival of a Russian naval fleet in Korea causes concern to the Imperial Japanese government.

* February 7 – Aleksandr Kolchak, Russian naval commander ( b. 1874 )

* October 20 – Greek War of Independence – Battle of Navarino: British, French, and Russian naval forces destroy the Turko-Egyptian fleet in Greece.

* June 4 – Battle of Osel Island: A Russian naval force defeats the Swedish fleet.

After discussions broke down in 1904, the Japanese Navy attacked the Russian eastern fleet at Port Arthur, a naval base in the Liaotung province leased to Russia by China, which led to war.

In 1790 Russian naval forces under the command of admiral Fyodor Ushakov defeated the Turkish fleet at the Battle of Kerch Strait.

In 1714, Peter's galley navy managed to capture a small detachment of the Swedish navy in the first Russian naval victory near Hanko peninsula.

The city, formerly the home of the Russian-then Soviet-Black Sea Fleet, is now home to a Ukrainian naval base and a Russian naval base in facilities leased by the Russian Navy.

* Troops led by Estonian resistance fighter Lembitu of Lehola destroy a garrison of missionaries in the historical Estonian region of Sakala, and raid the Russian town of Pskov.

Polevoy's view appeared to gain wide support among the Russian geographer community ; petitioned by the Amur Branch of the Russian Geographical Society, the Russian Government renamed the village of Odzhal to Achan in 1977, to celebrate its connection with Khabarov's raid.

Timur's raid was of service to the Russian prince as it damaged the Golden Horde, which for the next twelve years was in a state of anarchy.

When the Russian explorers and raiders arrived to the region in the early 1650 ( notably, during Yerofei Khabarov's 1651 raid ), they would often see the Daur farmers burn their smaller villages and taking refuge in larger towns.

On 2, 15 June Air Force flew its first " shuttle " mission when 130 B-17s and P-51 escorts landed in Russian controlled territory after a raid in Hungary.

In 2004, the publishing house Posev published the Sennikov archive as part of The Tambov Rebellion and the Liquidation of Russian Peasantry along with documents relating to the Governate Military Commissariat ( including those dealing with Konstantin Mamontov's 1919 anti-Bolshevik raid, and those describing the Great Purge of the 1920-30s ).

According to Russian sources the members of this special-purposed and highly-trained unit performed remarkably well and lost only two men ; the lightest casualties of all forces involved in the raid.

* February 15 – Russian Sikorsky Ilya Muromets bombers attack the Vistula-Dobrzhani area of Poland, the first bombing raid by the Ilya Muromets.

Some human rights lawyers in Russia have speculated that the raid is retaliation for Memorial screening a banned film Rebellion: the Litvinenko Case, about the murder of Russian ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko.

Allison Gill, director of Human Rights Watch in Moscow, has said " This outrageous police raid shows the poisonous climate for non-governmental organisations in Russia [...] This is an overt attempt by the Russian government [...] to silence critical voices.

The last recorded major Crimean raid, before those in the Russo-Turkish War ( 1768 – 1774 ) took place during the reign of Peter I ( 1682 – 1725 ) However, Cossack raids continued during that time, Ottoman Grand Vizier complained to the Russian consul about raids to Crimea and Özi in 1761.

His family asserted that his interest in joining the Chechen militant movement was incited when Torshkhoyev witnessed five of his close friends being killed by Russian security forces during the same raid.

In this position, he was among the commanders of the 2004 Nazran raid in which simultaneous nationwide raids on police stations killed over 70 security personnel in the capital Nazran ; according to the Russian Federal Security Service ( FSB ), during the attack Taziev personally killed the acting Ingush Interior Minister Abubakar Kostoyev.

However, the mansion raid is botched when a vengeful Russian gangster, Alexei ( Peter Stormare ), violently storms the mansion on his own.

In January 1996, the local airbase was raided by the Chechen separatists in the course of the Kizlyar raid, which claimed the lives of seventy-eight Russian soldiers.

First, her boats conducted a night raid on Kildin Island that wiped out a Russian garrison.

German submarines of the Constantinople Flotilla and Turkish light forces would continue to raid and harass Russian shipping until the war's end.

The Mongolian People's Republic became involted in a border dispute with the Republic of China during the Pei-ta-shan Incident, Soviet Russian and Mongol forces attempted to occupy and raid Chinese territory, in response, a Chinese Muslim Hui cavalry regiment, the 14th Tungan Tungan Cavalry regiment was sent by the Chinese government to attack Mongol and Soviet positions.

The Cossacks under Orendarenko and Marcin Kazanowski would raid the Russian rear lines, freeing the Polish-Lithuanian units under Radziwiłł and Gosiewski to join the effort to break the siege.

Captain James Barber of the British ship Unicorn, also anchored nearby, lured Shk ' awulyéil and several of his raiders aboard and placed them in the brig, subsequently exchanging them for the remaining lone Russian and 18 Aleut captives ( along with some 4, 000 sea otter pelts that had been plundered during the raid ).

* 1575 Russian looting raid during Livonian war

After an ineffectual raid on Russian headquarters at Temir-Khan-Shura, a rumour spread that he had slaughtered all the Russians in the hospital and cut them up into shashliks, which he left behind for the Russian troops to eat unawares.