Battle of Praga

Battle of Praga
	Part of the Kościuszko Uprising
	; Obrona Pragi, Aleksander Orłowski
Date	4 November 1794
Location	Praga, Warsaw, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
Result	Russian victory Capitulation of Warsaw; Suppression of the uprising ; ;
Belligerents
Russia	Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
Commanders and leaders
Alexander Suvorov ; Pavel Potemkin ; Wilhelm Derfelden ; Ivan Fersen ; Georgy Shevich Others Tormasov ; Bagration ; Yermolov ; Barclay de Tolly ; Kulnev ; Wittgenstein ;	Józef Zajączek (WIA) ; Tomasz Wawrzecki ; Jakub Jasiński † ; Władysław Jabłonowski (POW) ; Berek Joselewicz ; Jan Giessler (POW) ; Jan Meyen (POW) ; Gen. Krupiński (POW)
Strength
22,000: • 20,000 regulars;; • 2,000 Cossacks.; ; 86 cannons	30,000: • 17,500 regulars;; • 12,500 irregulars.; ; 104 cannons
Casualties and losses
1,540–4,000 killed and wounded	9,000–10,000 killed, died of wounds and drowned (excluding civilians) ; 11,000–13,000 captured (including wounded and unarmed) At least 101 guns
	12,000 Polish civilians killed

The Battle of Praga or the Second Battle of Warsaw of 1794, also known in Russian and German as the storming of Praga (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) 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. Historian and professor Friedrich Christoph Schlosser labelled Praga as "the key to Warsaw".

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