Battle of Brailov (1666)
| Battle of Brailov | |||||||
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| Part of the Polish–Cossack–Tatar War (1666–1671) | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
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Cossack Hetmanate Crimean Khanate | Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
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Petro Doroshenko Devlet Giray Sultan |
Sebastian Machowski (POW) Piotr Bułhak (POW) Jerzy Wielhorski | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
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20,000 Cossacks 20,000 to 60,000 Tatars | about 1,000 people | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| Unknown |
100 killed 100 wounded 800 captured | ||||||
The Battle of Brailov (Ukrainian: Битва під Браїловим, Polish: Bitwa pod Braiłowem) was the first battle of the Polish–Cossack–Tatar war that took place on 19 December 1666 between the joint Cossack-Tatar army led by Petro Doroshenko and the Polish-Lithuanian army led by Sebastian Machowski. It ended in a Cossack-Tatar victory with Machowski taken prisoner.