ORDER OF BATTLE // October 31, 1812
Battle of Aslanduz
Estimated force strength by side, with confidence labels per surviving record.
Forces engaged
2 sides catalogued · combined 7,000 estimated
Russian Empire
2,000
Medium-confidence figure
Qajar Iran
5,000
Medium-confidence figure
Battle context
The Battle of Aslanduz was a decisive Russian victory during the Russo-Persian War of 1804–13, in which a Russian force of roughly 2,000 under Pyotr Kotlyarevsky defeated a Qajar Iranian army of around 5,000 commanded by Abbas Mirza and Dowlatshah. Qajar casualties equaled their entire engaged force, a scale of loss that critically weakened Persian military capacity in the closing phase of the war. The battle accelerated the collapse of Iranian resistance and contributed to the conditions that produced the Treaty of Gulistan in 1813, by which Qajar Iran ceded significant territory in the Caucasus to Russia.
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