On this day, 218 years ago, on February 19, 1807 (January 13, 1807, the British fleet forcibly passed through the Dardanelles Strait. The Dardanelles Strait is located in northwest Turkey. Together with the Bosphorus Strait, it is the gateway from the Black Sea to the Mediterranean Sea and is a strategic location. From 1806 to 1812, during the Ninth Russian War, Russia invaded the parks of the Danube Basin under Turkish rule, and soon occupied Bessarabia, Moldavia, and Wallachia. On February 19, 1807, in order to support Russia's war against Turkey, the British fleet forcibly passed through the Dardanelles Strait, the territorial waters belonging to Turkey, playing a deterrent role in Turkey. In 1811, the Russian army defeated the Shangsar army and signed the Peace of Bucharest with Turkey on May 16, 1812. Turkey ceded Bessarabia to Russia, and Russia returned part of the South Caucasus to Turkey.