Polish–Cossack–Tatar War (1666–1671)

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Polish–Cossack–Tatar War
Part of the
Polish-Ottoman Wars and the Polish–Cossack Wars

Return of the Victorious by Józef Brandt, 19th century
Date1666–1671
Location
Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, Cossack Hetmanate, Crimean Khanate
Result Polish–Lithuanian victory[1][2]
Belligerents
Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth border=no Cossack Hetmanate
Crimean Khanate
link Ottoman Empire
Commanders and leaders
John III Sobieski border=no Petro Doroshenko
Adil Giray
Selim I Giray
link Mehmed IV
Strength
38,200 Polish–Lithuanian cavalry and infantry 23,000 Zaporozhian Cossacks
35,000–40,000 Crimean Tatars
Casualties and losses
Unknown Unknown

The Polish — Cossack–Tatar War (Ukrainian: Польсько-козацько-татарська війна, Polish: Wojna polsko - kozacko-tatarska) was fought between the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Ottoman-allied states of the Cossack Hetmanate and the Crimean Khanate. It occurred in the aftermath of the Russo–Polish War of 1654–1667 and was a prelude to the Ottoman–Polish War of 1672—1676.

Hostilities

In 1666,

Hetman Petro Doroshenko of the Cossack Hetmanate aiming to gain control of Ukraine but facing defeats from other factions struggling over control of that region (the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and Tsardom of Russia) in a final bid to preserve his power in Ukraine, signed a treaty with the Ottoman Sultan Mehmed IV that recognized the Cossack Hetmanate as a vassal of the Ottoman Empire
.

In the meantime, the

Hetman Petro Doroshenko. They were however stopped by the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth's forces under the command of Hetman John III Sobieski, who stopped their first push (1666–1667), defeating them several times, and finally gaining an armistice after the Battle of Pidhaitsi
in 6–16 October 1667.

In 1670, however,

Hetman Petro Doroshenko; but again like in 1666–1667 the Cossack–Tatar forces were defeated by Hetman John III Sobieski. Khan Selim I Giray then renewed his oath of allegiance to the Ottoman Sultan Mehmed IV and pleaded for assistance, to which the Ottoman Sultan Mehmed IV agreed. Thus an irregular border conflict escalated into a regular war, as the Ottoman Empire
was now prepared to send its regular units onto the battlefield in a bid to try to gain control of that region for itself.

See also

References

  1. ^ Podhorodecki 1987, p. 315.
  2. ISBN 978-0-521-29163-7
    . Ultimately, Cossack divisions and Russian weakness enabled the Poles to rout Doroszenko (October 1671) and occupy much of the Ukraine

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