Siege of Bar | |||||||||
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Part of the Khmelnytsky Uprising | |||||||||
Photograph of the castle ruins, taken in 1908 by the Kamenets photographer Michal Greim. | |||||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||||
Zaporozhian Cossacks | Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth | ||||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
Unknown | Piotr Potocki | ||||||||
Strength | |||||||||
Unknown | Unknown | ||||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||||
Entire garrison killed | Unknown |
The Siege of Bar took place between the Cossack garrison of Bar and the Polish–Lithuanian forces of the Bar fortress, during which Polish commander Piotr Potocki laid a siege on the fortress, capturing the fortress and defeating its garrison, in February 1649.[1]