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The Battle of Kalnyk took place on 21 October 1671, during the Polish-Cossack-Tatar war of 1666-1671. The Polish crown hetman Jan Sobieski defeated the Cossack-Tatar army, which was coming to the aid of Kalnik, besieged by the Poles. Despite the victory, Sobieski failed to take Kalnik and retreated to Bratslav.
John III Sobieski Monument (Polish: Pomnik Jana III Sobieskiego) is a sculpture in Warsaw, Poland, within the neighbourhood of Ujazdów in the Downtown district, in the Royal Baths Park. It is a sandstone equestrian statue of John III Sobieski , monarch of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth from 1674 to 1696, commemorating his victory in the ...
ISBN 978-1-945430-96-1. Kaczmarek, Krystyna; Kaczmarek, Remigiusz & Kaczmarek, Romuald (2005). "Jan Sobieski jako żołnierz i wódz we współczesnej mu grafice, cz. 2" [Jan Sobieski as a soldier and commander in contemporary artworks, part 2]. Wychowanie Techniczne w Szkole (Z Plastyką) (in Polish) (2): 39– 42. ISSN 0510-9884.
On October 11, Sobieski's troops crossed the Dniester and set off in pursuit of the retreating Haci Girey. After a strenuous day and night march, the crown army , in the strength of a thousand soldiers (the rest could not keep up and stayed behind), caught up with the Tatars at dawn on October 14 and smashed them in battles at Petranka and Kalush .
The causes of the Polish-Ottoman War of 1672–1676 can be traced to 1666. Petro Doroshenko Hetman of Zaporizhian Host, aiming to gain control of Ukraine but facing defeats from other factions struggling over control of that region, in a final bid to preserve his power in Ukraine, signed a treaty with Sultan Mehmed IV in 1669 that recognized the Cossack Hetmanate as a vassal of the Ottoman Empire.
[1] [2] In fall 1683, the Polish king appointed Stefan Kunicki as the leader of a campaign to oust the Ottomans from Moldavia [ru; uk]. After initial success, the Polish-Cossack army was defeated by the Ottoman-Crimean army in the Battle of Reni. [1] In April 1684, Jan made plans to launch another Moldavian campaign by conquering the Danube ...
On May 1, 1683, the Ottoman Empire attacked the Holy Roman Empire and besieged Vienna on July 14, 1683. [1] On September 6 the Polish army under John III Sobieski arrived in Tulln and united with Imperial forces and additional troops from Saxony, Bavaria, Baden, Franconia and Swabia who had answered the call for a Holy League that was supported by Pope Innocent XI.
1,500 troops [1] 120,000 troops 100 guns [1] Casualties and losses; 500 [2] ... at the head of which Hetman Jan Sobieski crushed the Turks at Chocim in November 1673 ...