the Danubian Sich (an exiled Zaporozhian Cossack Host which lived in the Ottoman Controlled Danube 1778-1828)
They proved themselves in combat in the storming of Isaccea, and 10 Cossacks were awarded the Cross of St. George.
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The new Host was small with only a five infantry sotnias (~100 men each) and came under the control of the Danube flotilla.
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In the end the rebellion was put down, the Zaprozhians where rewarded by the Brailov Nazir, who allowed then to return to Katerlez in 1803.
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Afterwards the Turkish authorities re-located the Danubian Zaporozhians further up the Danube on the Brailov Island.
Zaporizhian Sich | Sylvia – Eine Klasse für sich | Danubian Sich | Danubian Plain | Sich Riflemen | Kobzarska Sich | Danubian Plain (Bulgaria) |
During the Russo-Turkish War (1828–1829), the Danubian Sich Cossacks, previously living in exile in Ottoman controlled Danube Delta were split in loyalty towards the Orthodox Russian Empire, who they left in 1775 and Islamic Ottoman Empire, which was about to start another war with Russia.