Battle of Khotyn (1621)

This article is about the battle that occurred in 1621. Not to be confused with the Battle of Khotyn (1673).

Battle of Khotyn (1621)
Part of the Moldavian Magnate Wars and Polish–Ottoman War (1620–1621)

Battle of Chocim by Józef Brandt
Date2 September – 9 October 1621
Location
Near Khotyn (now Ukraine)
Result See § Aftermath
Belligerents
Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
Zaporozhian Cossacks		 Ottoman Empire
Crimean Khanate
Wallachia
Moldavia
Commanders and leaders
Grand Hetman Jan Karol Chodkiewicz #
Regimentarz Stanisław Lubomirski
Crown Prince Władysław Vasa
Petro Sahaidachny (WIA)
Ivan Sirko		 Sultan Osman II
Grand Vizier Ohrili Hüseyin Pasha
Khan Temir
Canibek Giray
Strength

25,000[1] Polish-Lithuanian troops:

  • 4,800 Lithuanian infantry;[2]
  • 3,500 Lithuanian cavalry.[2]
20,000–25,000 Zaporozhian Cossacks[1]

120,000–160,000 Ottoman[3] and Tatar, 13,000 Moldavian and Wallachian troops[4][better source needed]

'34,825 Kapikulu (regular army)'[5]
~18,000 Janissary
~1,800 Cebeci
~1,300 artillery corps
~13,000 Kapikulu cavalry.
Casualties and losses
14,000 killed[6] 40,000 killed[6]

The Battle of Khotyn or Battle of Chocim or Khotyn War[7] (in Turkish: Hotin Muharebesi) was a combined siege and series of battles which took place from 2 September to 9 October 1621 between a Polish-Lithuanian army with Cossack allies, commanded by the Grand Hetman of Lithuania Jan Karol Chodkiewicz and Petro Konashevych-Sahaidachny, against an invading Ottoman Imperial army, led by Sultan Osman II, which was stopped until the first autumn snows. On 9 October, due to the lateness of the season and heavy losses - due to failed assaults on Commonwealth fortifications - the Ottomans abandoned their siege and the battle concluded with a stalemate, which is reflected in the treaty where some sections favour the Ottomans while others favoured the Commonwealth. Chodkiewicz died on 24 September 1621 shortly before concluding a treaty with the Turks.

  1. ^ a b Frost, Robert I. (2004). After the Deluge: Poland-Lithuania and the Second Northern War, 1655-1660. Cambridge University Press. p. 13.
  2. ^ a b Sliesoriūnas, Gintautas (2015). Lietuvos Istorija. Vol. 6. Lietuvos Istorijos Institutas. p. 182.
  3. ^ Encyklopedya polska. Nakl. Polskiej Akademii Umiejetnosci; skl. gl. w ksieg.: Gebethner i Wolff. 11 April 2019.
  4. ^ Podhorodecki, Leszek (1988). Chocim 1621. Historyczne bitwy. MON.
  5. ^ (Ottoman Turkish) (Ottoman campaign register/logbook) TÂRİH-İ KAMANİÇE (metin) (PDF). p. 33. Archived from the original (PDF) on 31 October 2016.
  6. ^ a b Brian Davies, Warfare, State and Society on the Black Sea Steppe, 1500–1700, (Routledge, 2007), 99.
  7. ^ DeVries, Kelly Robert (1 May 2014). "The European tributary states of the Ottoman Empire in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries". Choice. 51 (9).