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 ; Tugay Bey	Władysław Dominik Zasławski-Ostrogski ; Mikołaj Ostroróg ; Jeremi Wiśniowiecki ; Janusz Tyszkiewicz ; Aleksander Koniecpolski
Strength
60,000–80,000 Zaporozhian Cossacks ; 3,000–4,000 Crimean Tatars	40,000–50,000 Polish–Lithuanian servants; 32,000–40,000 Polish–Lithuanian nobility, cavalry and infantry; 8,000 German mercenaries
Casualties and losses
Unknown killed and wounded	Unknown killed and wounded

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 completely 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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