Battles of Lanckorona

Clashes at Lanckorona (1771)
Part of War of the Bar Confederation

"Prayer of the Bar Confederation before the battle of Lanckorona"
Painting by Artur Grottger
Date20 February: 1st[b] & 2nd[c] clashes
21 May: 3rd[d] clash
Location
Lanckorona and its castle, Kraków Voivodeship, Kingdom of Poland, Poland-Lithuania
Result
  •  • Russian victory – 1st clash
  •  • Confederate victory – 2nd clash
  •  • Russian victory – 3rd clash
Belligerents
 Russian Empire
Commanders and leaders
Alexander Suvorov (WIA)
Ivan Drewitz		 Kingdom of France Charles Dumouriez
Józef Miączyński (POW)
Kajetan Sapieha †
Michał Walewski
Strength
c. 1,000 infantry[e]
(1st & 2nd clashes)
(3rd clash)		 700 cavalry & infantry[f]
(1st & 2nd clashes)
  • 3,500–4,000 men;[3][4]
  • 32 cannons, of which
    2 deployed.[6][g]
(3rd clash)
Casualties and losses
Unknown
(1st clash)
Great[h]
(2nd clash)
Negligible[i]
(3rd clash)		 Unknown
(1st clash)
Uncertain[j]
(2nd clash)
(3rd clash)

The first combat of Lanckorona, the storming of the Lanckorona Castle (Polish: Obrona Lanckorony, lit. 'Defense of Lanckorona') and the second battle of Lanckorona (Russian: Лянцкоронское сражение; Polish: Bitwa pod Lanckoroną) were three different clashes of the Bar Confederation that took place in the Lanckorona Castle, on the plains before Lanckorona, and in the town ifself, a small settlement 27 km (17 mi) southwest of the de jure Polish capital Kraków (de facto capital was Warsaw). The clashes involved a detachment of the Russian army of Ivan Weymarn [ru] led by Alexander Vasilyevich Suvorov and Polish force with other European troops under the command of the French envoy Charles François Dumouriez.[3]

Alexander Suvorov had already fought the Confederates in a substantial battle the year before last — he gave a heavy defeat to Casimir Pulaski at Orzechowo. Here, in the battle of Orzechowo, possessing a detachment not reaching 400 men, Suvorov won against 2,000 Polish Confederates.[3]


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  1. ^ a b c d Konopczyński 1928, pp. 127–132.
  2. ^ Miączyński 1911, p. 60.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Petrushevsky, Alexander (1884). Generalissimo Prince Suvorov (in Russian). Vol. 1 (1st ed.). Типография М. М. Стасюлевича. pp. 75–105.
  4. ^ a b "Obrona Lanckorony (20 lutego 1771 – 8 maja 1772)". TwojaHistoria.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 5 August 2023.
  5. ^ Petrov 1874, p. 225.
  6. ^ Petrov 1874, p. 223.
  7. ^ Osipov 1939, p. 39.
  8. ^ a b Petrov 1874, p. 224.
  9. ^ Osipov 1939, p. 40.