Action of Tyniec Abbey

Action of the Tyniec Abbey
Part of the war of the Bar Confederation

View of the abbey
DateMay 20, 1771[a]
Location
Tyniec, Kraków Voivodeship
Result Confederate victory
Belligerents
Russia
Commanders and leaders
Russian Empire Alexander Suvorov
Russian Empire Pyotr Shepelev		 Kingdom of France Charles François Dumouriez
Strength

3,600[1] (in all)

  • Unknown number engaged

800[1] (in all)

  • Unknown number engaged
Casualties and losses
90 dead and injured[2] 100 dead,
75 prisoners of war,
2 cannons[2]

The action of (the) Tyniec Abbey[b] was an engagement between the armies of the Russian Empire and the Bar Confederation that took place on 20 May 1771. Russian Major-General Suvorov, in co-operation with Lieutenant-Colonel Shepelev's cavalry, assaulted Lieutenant-Colonel Dumouriez's army on a mountain redoubt fortified with a palisade, trous de loup, and two cannons; near the Tyniec Abbey, the village of Tyniec; but after taking the redoubt twice, they were twice repulsed, however, managed to capture all the cannons; Suvorov refused to retake the redoubt, and withdrew to meet Dumouriez, who had meanwhile brought reinforcements, in the third confrontation at Lanckorona. Almost all the infantry of the Tyniec consisted of Austrian deserters.[2][3]


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  1. ^ a b Petrov 1874, pp. 216, 219–220.
  2. ^ a b c Petrushevsky 1884, pp. 100–101.
  3. ^ Petrov 1874, p. 222.