Battle of Berestechko

Battle of Berestechko
	Part of the Khmelnytsky Uprising
	; Battle of Berestechko 1651. Counterattack by the Poles against the Zaporozhian Cossacks and Crimean Tatars
Date	28 June — 10 July, 1651
Location	Berestechko, Rivne Oblast, Ukraine
Result	Polish-Lithuanian victory
Belligerents
Cossack Hetmanate ; Crimean Khanate	Poland–Lithuania
Commanders and leaders
Bohdan Khmelnytsky ; Ivan Bohun ; Fylon Dzalaliy ; Matviy Hladky ; İslâm III Giray ; Tugay Bey †	John II Casimir ; Jeremi Wisniowiecki ; Mikołaj Potocki ; Marcin Kalinowski ; Stefan Czarniecki ; Stanisław Lanckoroński
Strength
200,000 total; 33,000 Cossacks; many thousands of peasants; 30,000 Crimean Tatars; 2,000 Don Cossacks; Several thousand Turks and Vlachs	80,000 total; 17,000 cavalry ; 16,000 infantry; 56,000 Pospolite ruszenie
Casualties and losses
30,000-40,000 killed	700

The Battle of Berestechko (Ukrainian: Битва під Берестечком, Polish: Bitwa pod Beresteczkiem; 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, a 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, was 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.^[5] The battle took place in the Volhynian Voivodeship on the hilly plain south of the Styr River.^[6] The Polish–Lithuanian camp was on the Styr River opposite Berestechko and faced south, towards the Zaporozhian Cossacks about two kilometers away, whose right flank was against the Pliashivka (Pliashova) River and the Crimean Tatars on their left flank.^[7] It is considered to have been among the largest European land battles of the 17th century.^[8]^[9]

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^ Romuald Romański, Beresteczko 1651, p. 192
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^ Hrushevsky, pp. 304–305
^ Hrushevsky, pp. 304 and 313
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