Battle of Podhajce (1667) | |||||||
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Part of the Polish–Cossack–Tatar War (1666–1671) | |||||||
Polish–Lithuanian cavalry attacking the Tatars and the Cossacks during the battle. Painting by Józef Brandt | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
Crimean Khanate Cossack Hetmanate | Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth | ||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Adil Giray Petro Doroshenko |
John III Sobieski Aleksander Polanowski | ||||||
Strength | |||||||
16,000–20,000 Tatars 15,000 Cossacks 3,000 Janissaries 52 cannons |
3,000 soldiers 6,000 peasants 18 cannons | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
Unknown | 500 killed and wounded[2] |
The Battle of Podhajce (October 6–16, 1667) was fought in the town of Podhajce in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (nowadays Pidhaitsi, western Ukraine), and the area surrounding it as part of the Polish-Tartar War and the Great Turkish War. The army of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth under John III Sobieski, totaling around 9,000 men, defeated Tatar and Cossack forces under Petro Doroshenko and Adil Giray, which totaled around 35,000 men.[3]