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Battle of Praga

This article is about a battle in 1794. For the Great Northern War engagement, see Battle of Praga (1705).
Battle of Praga
Part of the Kościuszko Uprising

Obrona Pragi, Aleksander Orłowski
Date4 November 1794[a]
Location
Praga, Warsaw, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
Result
Belligerents
 Russia Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
Commanders and leaders

Alexander Suvorov
Pavel Potemkin
Wilhelm Derfelden
Ivan Fersen
Georgy Shevich

Others
 Józef Zajączek (WIA)
Tomasz Wawrzecki
Jakub Jasiński †
Władysław Jabłonowski (POW)
Berek Joselewicz
Jan Giessler (POW)
Jan Meyen (POW)
Gen. Krupiński (POW)
Strength
22,000:[2][3][4][5][6]

86 cannons[5]		 30,000:[4][2][5][1][8]

104 cannons[5]
Casualties and losses
1,540–4,000 killed and wounded[13][c][14]

9,000–10,000 killed, died of wounds and drowned (excluding civilians)[d]
11,000–13,000 captured (including wounded and unarmed)[e]

At least 101 guns[1]
12,000 Polish civilians killed[f]

The Battle of Praga or the Second Battle of Warsaw of 1794, also known in Russian and German as the storming of Praga[14] (Russian: Штурм Праги) and in Polish as the defense of Praga (Polish: Obrona Pragi), was a Russian assault on Praga, the easternmost community of Warsaw, during the Kościuszko Uprising in 1794. It was followed by a massacre (known as the Massacre of Praga[g]) of the civilian population of Praga.

Praga was a suburb ("Faubourg") of Warsaw, lying on the right bank of the Vistula river. In 1794 it was well fortified and was better strengthened than the western part of the capital, located on the left bank of the Vistula.[16] Historian and professor Friedrich Christoph Schlosser labelled Praga as "the key to Warsaw".[5]

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h Petrushevsky, Alexander (1884). Generalissimo Prince Suvorov (in Russian). Vol. 2 (1st ed.). Типография М. М. Стасюлевича. pp. 99–125.
  2. ^ a b c Duffy C. Eagles Over the Alps: Suvorov in Italy and Switzerland, 1799. Ch. 2 "Suvorov. The Man and his Armies". Emperor's Press, 1999. P. 16
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference Dixon was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ a b Duffy C. Russia's Military Way to the West: Origins and Nature of Russian Military Power 1700-1800. Routledge. 2015. P. 196
  5. ^ a b c d e Schlosser F. C. History of the Eighteenth Century and of the Nineteenth Till the Overthrow of the French Empire. Volume VI. Chapman and Hall. 1845. P. 256
  6. ^ a b c Anthing 1813, p. 107.
  7. ^ a b See Opposing forces subsection
  8. ^ Anthing 1813, p. 105.
  9. ^ "Obrona Pragi (2–4 listopada 1794)"
  10. ^ Arsenyev & Petrushevsky 1898.
  11. ^ a b Suvorov, Alexander (1795). Польская кампания (1794-1795 гг.) (Суворов)  (in Russian) – via Wikisource.
  12. ^ a b Blease 1920, p. 173.
  13. ^ (in Russian) Бантыш-Каменский Д. Биографии российских генералиссимусов и генерал-фельдмаршалов. СПб.: В тип. 3-го деп. Мингосимуществ, 1840; [1]
  14. ^ a b c d Bodart, Gaston (1908). Militär-historisches Kriegs-Lexikon (1618-1905) (in German). Vienna & Leipzig: C. W. Stern. p. 300. Retrieved 11 September 2023.
  15. ^ #Aftermath
  16. ^ Anthing 1813, pp. 104–105.


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