Battle of Pyliavtsi

Battle of Pyliavtsi
Part of the Khmelnytsky Uprising
Attack of the Zaporozhian Cossacks and Crimean Tatars on the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
Date 21–23 September 1648 Location Pyliavtsi, Podolian Voivodeship, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth Result Cossack–Tatar victory
Belligerents
Zaporozhian Host Crimean Khanate	Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
Commanders and leaders
Bohdan Khmelnytsky Tymofiy Khmelnytsky Maksym Kryvonis Ivan Bohun Ivan Sirko Tugay Bey	Władysław Dominik Zasławski-Ostrogski Mikołaj Ostroróg Jeremi Wiśniowiecki Janusz Tyszkiewicz Aleksander Koniecpolski
Strength
84,000[a]	30,000[3] to 80,000[b] 80 cannons[5]
Casualties and losses
Unknown	15,000 to 40,000[c] All cannons captured[5]

The Battle of Pyliavtsi (Ukrainian: Битва під Пилявцями, Polish: Bitwa pod Piławcami; 21–23 September 1648) was the third significant battle of the Khmelnytsky Uprising. Near the site of the present-day village of Pyliava in Ukraine, a forces of the Zaporozhian Host and Crimean Khanate under the command of Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky, Otaman Tymofiy Khmelnytsky, Colonel Maksym Kryvonis and Tugay Bey attacked and decisively defeated the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth’s forces under the command of Princes Władysław Dominik Zasławski-Ostrogski and Jeremi Wiśniowiecki, Noblemans Mikołaj Ostroróg and Aleksander Koniecpolski with Magnate Janusz Tyszkiewicz.

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