Battle of Zboriv (1649)

Not to be confused with Battle of Zboriv (1917).
Battle of Zboriv (1649)
Part of the Khmelnytsky Uprising

The Battle of Zboriv (1649) on the French painting by Jean-Pierre Norblin de La Gourdaine in 1780
Date15–16 August 1649
Location
Zboriv, Ruthenian Voivodeship, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
Result Indecisive
Belligerents
Cossack Hetmanate
Crimean Khanate		 Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
Commanders and leaders
Bohdan Khmelnytsky
Tymofiy Khmelnytsky
Fylon Dzhalaliy
Danylo Nechay
Martyn Nebaba
Mykhailo Hromyka
İslâm III Giray		 John II Casimir
Strength
30,000 Zaporozhian Cossacks[1]
10,000–20,000 Crimean Tatars[1]		 35,000–40,000 Polish–Lithuanian hussars, cavalry and infantry[2][page needed][failed verification]
Casualties and losses
Heavy 6,000–7,000 killed and wounded[2][page needed][failed verification]
The Battle of Zboriv (1649). Painting by Juliusz Kossak in 1897

The Battle of Zboriv (Ukrainian: Битва під Зборовом, Polish: Bitwa pod Zborowem; 15–16 August 1649) was fought between the Cossack Hetmanate and Crimean Khanate against the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth as a part of the Khmelnytsky Uprising. Near the site of the present-day city of Zboriv on the Strypa River in Ukraine, a forces of the Zaporozhian Cossacks and Crimean Tatars under the command of Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky, Otaman Tymofii Khmelnytsky, Colonels Fylon Dzhalaliy, Danylo Nechai and Martyn Nebaba with Mykhailo Hromyka and Khan İslâm III Giray attacked and defeated the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth’s forces under the command of the Polish King John II Casimir.

The Polish King John II Casimir and the main Crown Army left Warsaw on 23 June 1649 and had made it to Toporiv in the final days of July 1649 when Mikołaj Skrzetuski (called Jan Skrzetuski in Henryk Sienkiewicz's With Fire and Sword) informed the Polish King John II Casimir of the desperate situation at Zbarazh.[3]: 575–576  The Polish King John II Casimir made it to within a half-mile of Zboriv on 13 August 1649.[3]: 578 

  1. ^ a b Encyclopedia of Ukraine. Valeriy Stepankov, “Battle of Zboriv 1649, Encyclopedia of the history of Ukraine”. 2005.
  2. ^ a b Jan Białobłocki, “Klar Męstwa”. September 1649.
  3. ^ a b Hrushevsky, M., 2002, History of Ukraine-Rus, Volume Eight, The Cossack Age, 1626-1650, Edmonton: Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Press, ISBN 1895571324