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Revision as of 20:15, 14 March 2017
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 Battle of Khotyn 1673 | |||||||||
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 Principality of Wallachia |
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Jan Sobieski Michał Kazimierz Radziwiłł Grigore I Ghica | Hussain Pasha | ||||||||
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30,000 Poles and Lithuanians troops 300 Lipka Tatar[citation needed] | 35,000 and 120 canons | ||||||||
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| Insignificant | Around 30,000 dead, wounded and captured 120 guns | ||||||||
The Battle of Khotyn or Battle of Chocim or Hotin War[1] was a battle held on 11 November 1673, where Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth forces under hetman Jan Sobieski defeated Ottoman Empire forces under Hussain Pasha. It reversed the fortunes of the previous year, when Commonwealth weakness led to the signing of the Peace of Buczacz, and allowed Jan Sobieski to win the upcoming royal election and become the king of Poland.
Polish-Lithuanian forces and Wallachian regiments were 30 thousand strong. The Turks commanded 35 thousand troops and 120 guns. In this battle rockets of Kazimierz Siemienowicz were deployed successfully. The victory allowed the Poles to revoke the unfavourable Peace of Buczacz and set the stage for the role Sobieski was to play in the Battle of Vienna in 1683.
Name
Khotyn (Polish: Chocim; Romanian: Hotin; Turkish: Hotin; Russian: Хоти́н, translit. Khotin) was conquered and controlled by many different states, resulting in many name changes. Other name variations include Chotyn, or Choczim (especially in Polish).
Aftermath
The Turkish forces withdrew from Poland after having their supplies captured and most of their artillery. Sobieski and the nobles returned to Warsaw for elections following the death of Michael Wisniowiecki, King of Poland, the day before the battle.
Bibliography
- Alan Palmer, The Decline and Fall of the Ottoman Empire, Published by Barnes & Noble Publishing, 1992. ISBN 1-56619-847-X.
- Miltiades Varvounis, Jan Sobieski. The King Who Saved Europe, Xlibris, 2012, ISBN 978-1-4628-8081-2.
- Winged Hussars, Radoslaw Sikora, Bartosz Musialowicz, BUM Magazine, 2016.
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References
- ^ DeVries, Kelly Robert (2014-05-01). "The European tributary states of the Ottoman Empire in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries". Choice. 51 (09): 51–5179. doi:10.5860/CHOICE.51-5179. ISSN 0009-4978.
- Conflicts in 1673
- 1673 in Europe
- Battles involving the Ottoman Empire
- Battles involving Moldavia
- Battles involving the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
- Battles involving Wallachia
- 17th century in the Ottoman Empire
- 17th century in Ukraine
- Military history of Ukraine
- Battles of the Polish–Ottoman War (1672–76)
- November 1673 events