Battle of Korsuń
Battle of Korsuń | |||||||
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Part of the Khmelnytsky Uprising | |||||||
Meeting of Bohdan Khmelnytsky with Tugay Bey in Korsuń. Painting by Juliusz Kossak in 1885 | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
Zaporozhian Host Crimean Khanate | Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth | ||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Bohdan Khmelnytsky Mykhailo Krychevsky (POW) Ivan Bohun Maksym Kryvonis Martyn Pushkar Matviy Hladky Mykhailo Hromyka Tugay Bey |
Mikołaj Potocki (POW) Marcin Kalinowski (POW) | ||||||
Strength | |||||||
15,000 Zaporozhian Cossacks[1] 3,000 Crimean Tatars[1] | 4,000[2] | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
Light | 500 killed, 95% of the Army taken prisoner[3] |
The Battle of Korsuń (Ukrainian: Битва під Корсунем, Корсунська битва, Polish: Bitwa pod Korsuniem, Korsuńska bitwa; 25–26 May 1648) was the second significant battle of the Khmelnytsky Uprising. Near the site of the present-day city of Korsun-Shevchenkivskyi in Ukraine, a forces of the Zaporozhian Host and Crimean Khanate under the command of Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky, Colonels Mykhailo Krychevsky, Ivan Bohun, Maksym Kryvonis, Martyn Pushkar, Matviy Hladky and Mykhailo Hromyka with Tugay Bey attacked and defeated the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth’s forces under the command of Hetmans Mikołaj Potocki and Marcin Kalinowski, both of them was captured in the battle by the Zaporozhian Cossacks and Crimean Tatars. As in the Battle of Zhovti Vody in 29 April — 16 May, 1648 the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth’s forces took a defensive position, retreated and were thoroughly routed and destroyed by the forces of the Zaporozhian Host and Crimean Khanate.
Background
On 16 May 1648,
With combined forces of about 5,000 men,
Battle
The retreat started at dawn, during which the
Aftermath
The Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth was left without a military commanders,[4] and Bohdan Khmelnytsky continued his uprising, marshaling his forces towards Bila Tserkva.[5]: 410
References
- ^ a b Mykhailo Hrushevsky, “History of Ukraine-Rus”
- ^ Przegląd historyczno-wojskowy (in Polish). Ministerstwo Obrony Narodowej. 2015. p. 59.
- ^ Romański, Romuald (2008). Największe błędy w wojnach polskich (in Polish). Bellona. p. 50.
- ^ (in Ukrainian)Terletskyi, Omelian: "History of the Ukrainian Nation, Volume II: The Cossack Cause", page 76. 1924.
- ISBN 1895571324
External links
- (in Ukrainian) Military strategy of Bohdan Khmelnytsky