Siege of Zbarazh

Siege of Zbarazh
Part of the Khmelnytsky Uprising
The Zbarazh Castle in the present-day of the Ternopil Oblast in Ukraine
Date 10 July — 22 August, 1649 Location Zbarazh, Volhynian Voivodeship, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth Result Polish-Lithuanian victory[1]
Belligerents
Cossack Hetmanate Crimean Khanate	Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
Commanders and leaders
Bohdan Khmelnytsky Danylo Nechay Ivan Bohun (WIA) Kindrat Burliy (WIA) Martyn Nebaba Ivan Chornota † Stanislav Morozenko † İslâm III Giray	John II Casimir Jeremi Wiśniowiecki Aleksander Koniecpolski Mikołaj Ostroróg Andrzej Firlej Brodowski †
Strength
70,000 Zaporozhian Cossacks[2] 40,000 Crimean Tatars[2]	10,000–15,000 Polish–Lithuanian infantry and defenders of the castle[3]
Casualties and losses
Heavy	4,000–6,000 killed and wounded[3] 4,000–5,000 captured[3]

The siege of Zbarazh (Ukrainian: Облога Збаража, Битва під Збаражем, Polish: Oblężenie Zbaraża, Bitwa pod Zbarażem; 10 July — 22 August, 1649) was fought near the site of the present-day city of Zbarazh in Ukraine between the Cossack Hetmanate and Crimean Khanate against the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth as a part of the Khmelnytsky Uprising. The siege lasted for seven weeks.^[4]

The Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth’s forces was besieged in the Zbarazh Castle until in the aftermath of the Battle of Zboriv on 15–16 August 1649 and the Treaty of Zboriv on 18 August 1649. The Volhynian towns of Zbarazh and Zboriv are neighboring one another roughly.