Battle of Korsun

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Battle of Korsun
Course of the battle
Course of the battle
date May 26, 1648
place Korsun , Ukraine
output Victory of the Zaporozhian Cossacks
Parties to the conflict
Commander
Troop strength
approx.15,000 Cossacks and 4,000 Tatars about 20,000 men
losses

unknown

approx. 4,500-5,000 men

Khmelnytskyi Uprising (1648–1657)

Shovti Vody (1648) - Korsun (1648) - Starokostjantyniw (1648) - Pyljawzi (1648) - Pohost (1648) - Lojew I (1649) - Zahal (1649) - Sbarash (1649) - Sboriw (1649) - Krasne (1651 ) - Kopychyntsi (1651) - Berestechko (1651) - Lojew II (1651) - Bila Tserkva (1651) - Batoh (1652) - Kamjanez-Podilskyj (1652) - Monastyryshche (1653), - Suceava (1653), - Schwanez (1653)

The Battle of Korsun took place on May 26, 1648. It was the second battle of the Khmelnytsky uprising between the allied troops of the Zaporozhian Cossacks under Bohdan Khmelnyzky and the Crimean Tatars on the one hand and the Polish-Lithuanian troops under Mikołaj Potocki and Marcin Kalinowski on the other. The battle was named after the nearby town of Korsun in what is now Cherkassy Oblast , Ukraine , where it took place.

prehistory

After the Battle of Zhovti Vody was lost on May 16, 1648 for Poland, in which the son of the Polish Großhetmans Mikołaj Potocki Stefan Potocki was killed, died on May 20, 1648 unexpectedly the Polish king and military leader Władysław IV. What the Polish-Lithuanian army also unsettled.

course

The troops of the Cossacks and Tartars attacked the defensive Polish troops and inflicted a crushing defeat on them, whereupon the uprising of Bohdan Khmelnyzkyj escalated into war.

Juliusz Kossak 1885: Meeting between Bohdan Khmelnyzkyj and Tuhaj Bej

The combined forces of the Cossacks and Tatars captured more than 8,700 Poles, including the wounded Hetmans Potocki and Kalinowski.

Web links

Commons : Battle of Korsun  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Battle of Korsun in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine ; accessed on March 7, 2015
  2. ↑ a b 1648: War and Peace in Europe on the Westfälische Geschichte Internet portal , accessed on March 8, 2015
  3. ↑ military strategy Bohdan Khmelnytsky on warhistory 2002
  4. ↑ A kingdom without a king: the Malopolska nobility in seven Interregna ; Maria Rhode, Otto Harrassowitz Verlag 1997, p. 198

Coordinates: 49 ° 26 '  N , 31 ° 10'  E