Lacy's campaign to Crimea

Lacy's campaign to Crimea (1737)
	Part of Russo-Turkish War (1735–1739)
	; Crimean campaign showed on a map
Date	May – October 1737
Location	Syvash, Arabat Spit, Crimean Peninsula
Result	Russian victory
Belligerents
Russian Empire Zaporozhian Sich; Don Cossacks; Kalmyk Khanate; ;	Ottoman Empire Crimean Khanate; ;
Commanders and leaders
Peter Lacy; Peter Bredal; Gustaf Otto Douglas; Galdan-Narbo	Fetih II Giray; Hacı Mehmed Pasha
Strength
40,000	40,000 – 60,000

Lacy's campaign to Crimea was a military expedition from May to October 1737 by the Don army under the command of Field Marshal Peter Lacy, along with Cossacks and Kalmyk auxiliary cavalry led by Prince Galdan-Narbo, against the forces of the Crimean Khanate led by Fetih II Giray during the Russo-Turkish War of 1735–1739. The battles culminated in Russian victory at the Salgir River in Crimea on July 12, 1737, and in the vicinity of Karasubazar on July 14.

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