Athos battle. Admiral Senyavin against the Turkish Sultan

In 1805, after the announcement of General Bonaparte, the emperor of France began a new series of European wars, in which Russia took the most active part as part of the anti -French coalition. To counteract the French in the Mediterranean Sea, the squadron of Vice Admiral D.N. Senyavina. Based on the island of Corfu, she deployed hostilities in the Adriatic Sea and on the coast of Dalmatia, with the active support of the population of the Orthodox Montenegro. As a result of a number of brilliant victories at sea and on land, most of the territory of Slavic Dalmatia was liberated. However, the failures of the military operations of the Russian army at the European theater of military operations, the defeat at Austerlitz largely crossed out the successes of our sailors. All this prompted the beginning of the war with Russia and Turkey, who wanted to return its influence in the Northern Black Sea region