Paul I's Indian March

Name: Paul I's Indian March
Start: 1801
Location: Orenburg and the Kazakh steppe

1801 · Orenburg and the Kazakh steppe · Eastern Europe & Russia · War

Cossacks sent to conquer India with maps that end at Khiva

In January 1801 Paul I ordered Ataman Orlov's Don Cossacks to march via Bukhara and Khiva to the Indus and strike British India. Some 20,000 Cossacks rode into the steppe; Paul's orders admitted his maps went only as far as Khiva and the rest was their affair. News of his murder in March turned them back.

State: Russian Empire

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