Battle of the Cosmin Forest
| Battle of the Cosmin Forest | |||||||
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| Part of the Polish–Ottoman War (1485–1503) and Moldavian campaign (1497–1499) | |||||||
Cherubin Gniewosz in the battle of Suceava (original by J. Kossak, c. 1890) (English) | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
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Kingdom of Poland Teutonic Order |
Moldavia Ottoman Empire Crimean Khanate Kingdom of Hungary Wallachia | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
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King John I Albert Stanisław Chodecki Jan Teczynski (POW) | Stephen III of Moldavia | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
| 59,400 men |
44,000
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| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| 11,000 | Unknown | ||||||
The Battle of the Cosmin Forest was a military engagement between the Kingdom of Poland and a coalition army led by Stephen the Great consisting of mainly Moldavian forces alongside Transylvanian, Wallachian, Ottoman, and Crimean deployments. The battle resulted in a major victory for the coalition army.