Battle of Batih

Battle of Batih
Part of the Khmelnytskyi Uprising
Murdering of the Polish–Lithuanian prisoners after the battle. Painting by Hiob Ludolf in 1713
Date 1–2 June 1652 Location Batih, Bratslav Regiment, Cossack Hetmanate Result Cossack–Tatar victory
Belligerents
Cossack Hetmanate Crimean Khanate	Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
Commanders and leaders
Bohdan Khmelnytskyi Tymofiy Khmelnytskyi Ivan Bohun	Marcin Kalinowski (POW) Zygmunt Przyjemski (POW) Marek Sobieski (POW)
Strength
12,000 Cossacks[1] 8,000–10,000 Tatars[1]	13,500–20,000 Polish–Lithuanian cavalry and infantry[2]
Casualties and losses
1,000 killed and wounded[3]	10,000–15,000 killed and wounded[2]

The Battle of Batih (Ukrainian: Битва під Батогом, Polish: Bitwa pod Batohem; 1–2 June 1652) was fought between the Cossack Hetmanate and Crimean Khanate against the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth as a part of the Khmelnytskyi Uprising. Near the village of Batih in the Bratslav Regiment, a forces of the Zaporozhian Cossacks and Crimean Tatars under the command of Bohdan Khmelnytskyi, Tymofiy Khmelnytskyi and Ivan Bohun attacked and completely defeated the Polish–Lithuanian forces under the command of Marcin Kalinowski, Zygmunt Przyjemski and Marek Sobieski, all of them were killed in the action. After the battle, the captured Polish–Lithuanian troops were brutally slain and beheaded by the Zaporozhian Cossacks and Crimean Tatars, as a revenge for the Battle of Berestechko.^[4]

During the battle, a forces of the Cossack Hetmanate and Crimean Khanate destroyed many and one of the best Polish–Lithuanian military units. Although the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth managed to rebuild their army soon after the battle, the losses of the most experienced troops resulted in its temporary weakness. Defeat of the Crown Army contributed to the wars to come with the Tsardom of Muscovy and Swedish Empire, which in turn resulted into the Deluge.