Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Yaƙin ya ɓarke a cikin 1805<unk>1806 a kan asalin yaƙe-yaƙe na Napoleon. A shekara ta 1806, Sultan Selim III, ya sami ƙarfafawa daga nasarar da Rasha ta yi a Austerlitz
da kuma shawarar da Daular Faransa ta ba shi, ya tsige Constantine Ypsilantis mai goyon bayan Rasha a matsayin Hospodar na Yariman Wallachia da Alexander Mourousis a matsayin Hospodar na Moldavia, duka jihohin Ottoman. A lokaci guda, Daular Faransa ta mamaye Dalmatia kuma ta yi barazanar kutsawa cikin masarautun Danubian a kowane lokaci. Don kare iyakar Rasha daga yiwuwar harin Faransa, rundunar sojojin Rasha 40,000 ta ci gaba zuwa Moldavia da Wallachia. Sultan ya amsa ta hanyar toshe Dardanelles ga jiragen ruwa na Rasha kuma ya yi yaƙi da Rasha.