30 November 1853
Battle of Sinope
Attacked by Russia's Admiral Nakhimov, the Turkish flotilla is destroyed.
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Attacked by Russia's Admiral Nakhimov, the Turkish flotilla is destroyed.
Commands Ottoman ships destroyed by Nakhimov at Sinope.
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