Kunicki's campaign
| Kunicki's campaign | |||||||||
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| Part of Polish–Ottoman War (1683–1699) and Great Turkish War | |||||||||
Stefan Kunicki who led the Anti-Ottoman campaign of 1683–1684 | |||||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
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Cossack Hetmanate Zaporozhian Sich Poland–Lithuania Don Cossacks Moldavia (Pro-Kunicki faction) |
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| Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
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Yala-Pasha Yusuf-aga Ali, bey of Tighina † Haci II Giray Ali-Giray † Ivan Draginich | ||||||||
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In September: 5,000–6,000 At the end of campaign: 8,000–30,000 Cossacks and Moldavians |
Chițcani: 25,000 Reni: 10,000–12,000 7 guns | ||||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||||
| Very heavy | Kunicki's claim: Over 300,000 military and civilians killed | ||||||||
The Kunicki's campaign was a major military expedition led by the Right-bank hetman Stefan Kunicki against the Ottoman-Tatar forces in the Right-bank Ukraine, Moldavia and neighbouring territories as a part of the ongoing Great Turkish War. The campaign began in September of 1683, soon after the Christian victory at the Battle of Vienna. Kunicki's army quickly seized most of Right-bank Ukraine, after that the Cossacks, supported by the Moldavian opposition of Ștefan Petriceicu, captured several Moldavian cities, including Chișinău. On 5 of December 1683, the Cossack-Moldavian troops defeated the Turks and Tatars at the battle of Chițcani but on the next month were defeated near Reni. Despite the failure of Kunicki's campaign in Moldavia, the campaign still ended overall successfully as the Cossacks overtook majority of the Right-bank Ukraine (Ottoman Ukraine).