Battle of Berestechko

For Battle during World War I, see Battle of Berestechko (1916).

Battle of Berestechko
Part of the Khmelnytsky Uprising

Drawing of the Battle of Berestechko, based on a relief by Jean Thibaut
Date28 June – 10 July 1651
Location
Berestechko, Volhynia, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (modern-day Ukraine)
50°21′00″N 25°07′00″E / 50.35000°N 25.11667°E / 50.35000; 25.11667
Result Polish–Lithuanian victory
Belligerents
 Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
Commanders and leaders
Strength
  • c. 100,000 – c. 200,000 total, including:
    • Many thousands of peasants
    • 30,000–40,000 Crimean Tatars
    • 2,000 Don Cossacks
    • Several thousand Turks and Vlachs
  • c. 75,000 – c. 80,000 total, of which:
    • 17,000 cavalry
    • 16,000 infantry
    • 56,000 levies
Casualties and losses
30,000–40,000 killed 700

The Battle of Berestechko (28 June – 10 July 1651) 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 Berestechko in Ukraine forces of the Zaporozhian Cossacks and Crimean Tatars under the command of Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky, Otaman Tymofiy Khmelnytsky, Colonels Ivan Bohun and Fylon Dzhalaliy with Khan İslâm III Giray and Tugay Bey, who was killed in the battle, were defeated by the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth's forces under the command of the Polish King John II Casimir, Prince Jeremi Wiśniowiecki, Hetmans Marcin Kalinowski and Stanisław Lanckoroński. It is considered to have been among the largest European land battles of the 17th century.


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