Battle of Bila Tserkva (1651)
The Battle of Bila Tserkva (Ukrainian: Битва під Білою Церквою, Polish: Bitwa pod Białą Cerkwią: 23–25 September 1651) was fought between the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth against the Cossack Hetmanate and Crimean Khanate as a part of the Khmelnytsky Uprising. Near the site of the present-day city of Bila Tserkva in Ukraine.
| Battle of Bila Tserkva (1651) | |||||||||
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| Part of the Khmelnytsky Uprising | |||||||||
The Battle of Bila Tserkva (1651) on the Polish–Lithuanian painting by Abraham van Westerveld in the XVII century | |||||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
| Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth |
Cossack Hetmanate Crimean Khanate | ||||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
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Janusz Radziwiłł Marcin Kalinowski Mikołaj Potocki Stanisław Potocki Zygmunt Przyjemski |
Bohdan Khmelnytsky İslâm III Giray | ||||||||
| Strength | |||||||||
| 22,000 Polish–Lithuanian hussars, cavalry and infantry |
25,000 Zaporozhian Cossacks 6,000 Crimean Tatars | ||||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||||
| Unknown | Unknown | ||||||||
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