Battle of Krupczyce

Battle of Krupczyce
Part of the Kościuszko Uprising

Fighting for a river crossing
Aleksander Orłowski
Date17 September 1794 (6th O.S.)
Location
Krupczyce, Brest Litovsk Voivodeship, Grand Duchy of Lithuania
(today part of Chyzhewshchyna, Belarus)
Result Russian victory
Belligerents
Russian Empire Russia Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
Commanders and leaders
Alexander Suvorov
Fyodor Buksgevden
Ivan Isaev [ru]
Georgy Shevich [ru]
Pyotr Islenyev [ru]		 Karol Sierakowski [pl]
Stanisław Kosmowski
Strength
12,000 men,
39 cannons[1][2]		 4,000 men,
26 cannons[1][2]
Casualties and losses
325–700[3]

~3,000 killed, wounded, or captured[3][a] (Suvorov's report)

  • 300 killed[4] (Polish source)

The Battle of Krupczyce took place between the Russian Empire's armed forces under the command of Alexander Vasilyevich Suvorov and Kościuszko's Polish rebels under Karol Józef Sierakowski east of Brest (near the Krupczyce Abbey), present-day Belarus, on September 17, 1794. It was part of the Kościuszko Uprising and ended with the defeat of the rebels.

  1. ^ a b Herbst
  2. ^ a b Гiстарычная брама № 1 (22) 2004 г. (in Belarusian)
  3. ^ a b Petrushevsky
  4. ^ Mała Encyklopedia Wojskowa (1 ed.). 1967.


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