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Today in History, May 26

185 years ago today, on May 26, 1829, the Russians achieved victory in the battle for access to the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles in the Russo-Turkish War. The conflict began one year before when the Ottoman Empire closed the straits to foreign traffic.

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