Battle of Sitka, 1802-1804.
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Battle of Sitka, 1802-1804.
9.99 €
The events of 1802-1804 were crucial to the history of the Russian colonies in North America. Russian pioneers had to face the determined resistance of the warlike and well-armed Tlingit Indians, who stubbornly defended their trading and fishing interests. In the epicenter of this struggle were the strongholds of the Russian-American Company (RAC) in the heart of the Tlingit country - on Sitka Island (now Baranov Island). In addition to Indians and RAC employees, English and American sea traders, as well as participants of the first Russian circumnavigation of the globe - sailors of the ship "Neva" under the command of Y.F. Lisyansky - were involved in the fight. In the summer of 1802 the united forces of the Tlingit destroyed the Russian fortress of St. Michael the Archangel, exterminated the Sitka fishing party, blocked the way of further advancement of Russian colonization. In 1804 the RAC forces under the leadership of A.A. Baranov struck back and restored control over Sitka and the adjacent waters of the straits of the Alexander Archipelago. Later, through skillful diplomacy, the parties managed to smooth out mutual contradictions and work out the rules of peaceful coexistence. Involvement of Russian and English-language written sources in combination with oral Indian legends makes it possible to identify the causes of the conflict, to reconstruct the course of hostilities in maximum detail, and to trace the fates of individual participants in these turbulent events.
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