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The Battle of Korsuń ( In Ukrainian: Korsun battle ? , transliterate: Korsuns’ka bytva ; in Polish Battle of Korsuń ) It was the second great battle of the Chmec’ykyj revolt. He took place on May 26, 1648, near the website of today’s Korsun’-ševčenkivs’kyj in Central Ukraine, and saw a numerically superior force combined with Cossarati and Tatari of Crimea, under the respective commands of Bohdan Chme’nyc’kyj And Tugay Bey, defeat the Polish-Lithuanian forces under the command of the Etmani Mikołaj Potocki and Marcin Kalinowski. Just as in the previous clash in Žovti Vody, the Polish-Lithuanian forces, in numerical inferiority they took a defensive position, retired and were put on the run by the opponents.
On May 16, 1648, Bohdan Chmel’nyc’ykyj led his army (made up of at least 15,000 Tatars and Cossacks) in an overwhelming victory against the Polish-Lithuanian forces under the command of Stefan Potocki in the battle of Žovti Vody. Great Etmano of the crown and father of Stefan, he could not send reinforcements in favor of his son, and perhaps they would not even be enough, given the number of men who changed deployment, especially on the side of the reinforcements themselves to fight Chme’YC’KYJ (plus of 5000 Cossacks joined him). [2] From its fortified position beyond Chyhyryn, fifteen miles from Žovti Vody, Mikołaj Potocki reported a retreat to the north. [3] In the vicinity of Cherkasy, the only survivor of the battle of Žovti Vody reached Potocki on May 19, bringing news of the disastrous defeat. [3] Two days later, Potocki managed to reach today’s Korsun’-ševčenkivs’kyj, where he decided to wait for Jeremi Wisinowiecki’s army, made up of six thousand men. [3]
With the combined forces of five thousand men the Etmani Marcin Kalinowski and Mikołaj Potocki attested the advance of Chme’YC’KYJJ, who was crossing the Tjasmyn river. [3] When the Ros river, on Korsun ‘, was crossed, Potocki made Korsun himself on fire and placed his army in front of his field, where he led a skirmish with the Tatars. [3] Subsequently, the Cossacchi began to dig a river dam in Rubliv. [3] During a war council, given the numerical superiority of the enemy, Potocki decided to retire the next day on Bohuslav road in a fence formation.
The retreat began at dawn, and the Cossacks and Tatars allowed Potocki’s forces to proceed until they reached Horochova Dibrova, about a mile and a half away from Korsun ‘, at noon. [3] It was then that Chmel’yyc’yjj ordered the first colonel Polkovnyk Maksym Kryvonis to prepare an ambush in this “swampy valley between two precipices”, between trenches and a barricaded road. [3] And when the Polish-Lithuanian forces entered the impenetrable valley, the Cossacks surrounded them on both sides and rapidly exterminated them. [3] They managed to escape only between the thousand and the thousandth century men under Colonel Korycki, while both Etmani were taken as prisoners of war [3] [4] And the rest of the army was taken prisoner or killed.
Since the Polish-Lithuanian Confederation remained without a military commander, [5] Chme’nyc’Kyj continued his revolt, directing his forces to Bila Cerkva. [first]
- ^ a b c Hrushevsky, M., 2002, History of Ukraine-Rus, Volume Eight, The Cossack Age, 1626-1650, Edmonton: Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Press, ISBN 1895571324
- ^ ( PL ) Battle of yellow waters -straight to the film by Jerzy Hoffman . are husaria.jest.pl . URL consulted on December 23, 2006 (archived by URL Original December 16, 2006) .
- ^ a b c d It is f g h i j ( IN ) Hrushevsky, M., The Cossack Age, 1626-1650 , in History of Ukraine-Rus , vol. 8, Edmonton: Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Press, 2002, ISBN 1895571324.
- ^ ( IN ) Nicholas Chirovsky, The Lithuanian-Rus’ commonwealth, the Polish domination, and the Cossack-Hetman State , Philosophical Library, 1984, p. 177 .
- ^ ( UK ) Terletskyi, Omelian: “History of the Ukrainian Nation, Volume II: The Cossack Cause”, page 76. 1924.
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