Assault on Yelets | |||||||
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Part of Prince Władysław's March on Moscow | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
Zaporozhian Cossacks | Tsardom of Russia | ||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Petro Sahaidachny | |||||||
Strength | |||||||
20,000 cossacks |
7,000 (1,800 – city garrison) | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
Significantly |
20,000 (from the relation of Petro Konashevych-Sahaidachny) 1,100 killed and captured from the Yelets garrison (Yuriy Chursin's estimate [1]) 640 civilian prisoners of war |
The Assault on Yelets (20 July 1618 – ?) was the capture of the Moscow fortress by the Cossacks of Hetman Petro Konashevych-Sahaidachny at the beginning of the campaign against Moscow. The Cossacks destroyed a powerful garrison that could have threatened the rear of the army and took a large ransom from the townspeople.