Battle of Zboriv (1649)
| Battle of Zboriv (1649) | |||||||||
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| Part of the Khmelnytsky Uprising | |||||||||
The Battle of Zboriv (1649) on the French painting by Jean-Pierre Norblin de La Gourdaine in 1780 | |||||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
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Cossack Hetmanate Crimean Khanate | Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth | ||||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
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Bohdan Khmelnytsky Tymofiy Khmelnytsky Fylon Dzhalaliy Danylo Nechay Ivan Sirko Martyn Nebaba Mykhailo Hromyka İslâm III Giray | John II Casimir | ||||||||
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30,000 Zaporozhian Cossacks 10,000–20,000 Crimean Tatars | 35,000–40,000 Polish–Lithuanian hussars, cavalry and infantry | ||||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||||
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10,000 killed 10,000 wounded | 6,000–7,000 killed and wounded | ||||||||
The Battle of Zboriv (Ukrainian: Битва під Зборовом, Polish: Bitwa pod Zborowem; 15–16 August 1649) was a significant battle fought as part of the Khmelnytsky Uprising, in which the Cossack Hetmanate and Crimean Khanate defeated the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. Occurring near the city of Zboriv on the Strypa River in Ukraine, forces of the Zaporozhian Cossacks and Crimean Tatars under the command of Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky attacked and Crown's forces under the command of the Polish King John II Casimir.
The Polish King John II Casimir and the main Crown Army left Warsaw on 23 June 1649 and had made it to Toporiv in the final days of July 1649 when Mikołaj Skrzetuski informed the Polish King John II Casimir of the desperate situation at Zbarazh.: 575–576 The Polish King John II Casimir made it to within a half-mile of Zboriv on 13 August 1649.: 578