Siege of Zhvanets

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Siege of Zhvanets
Part of the Khmelnytskyi Uprising
Painting of the Zhvanets Fortress by Napoleon Orda in 1876
Date September – 15 December, 1653 Location Zhvanets, Volhynian Voivodeship, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth Result Cossack–Tatar victory[1]
Belligerents
Cossack Hetmanate Crimean Khanate	Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
Commanders and leaders
Bohdan Khmelnytskyi Ivan Bohun Ivan Sirko İslâm III Giray	John II Casimir
Strength
30,000–40,000 Cossacks[2] 20,000 Tatars[2]	30,000–40,000 cavalry, infantry and servants[3][2] 20,000 Schwarze Reiters[2] 2,000 Transylvanian mercenaries[4] 1,000 Moldavian mercenaries[4] Several thousand of the Pospolite Ruszenie
Casualties and losses
Unknown	25,000 killed and wounded[2][a]
^ Majority died due to the strong Cossack–Tatar attacks, starvation and diseases during the siege. Of which were 10,000 Polish–Lithuanian and 15,000 Schwarze Reiters forces

The siege of Zhvanets (Ukrainian: Облога Жванця, Polish: Oblężenie Żwańca; September – 15 December, 1653) was fought between the Cossack Hetmanate, Crimean Khanate and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth as a part of the Khmelnytskyi Uprising. Near the site of the present-day village of Zhvanets on the Dniester River in Ukraine, a forces of the Zaporozhian Cossacks and the Crimean Tatars under the command of Bohdan Khmelnytskyi, Ivan Bohun and İslâm III Giray besieged the Polish–Lithuanian forces under the command of John II Casimir. The siege ended with a victorious outcome for the Cossacks and the Tatars, after which the Treaty of Zboriv was renewed.