Battle of Martynów (1699)
| Battle of Martynów (1699) | |||||||
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| Part of the Polish–Ottoman War (1683–1699) | |||||||
 Juliusz Kossak ,,Taniec Tatarski" | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
 Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth |
.svg){kind=icon} Crimean Khanate | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
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Unknown |
Unknown[1] | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
| 600[1] | less than 5,000 | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| Unknown | Unknown | ||||||
The Battle of Martynów - took place at Martynów on 21 February 1699, ending in defeat of the Polish army. It was a battle between the armies of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Ottoman Empire.[a]
Background
[edit]In December 1698, a Polish-Turkish peace treaty was signed in Karlowitz with provisions related to the end of the Polish-Turkish war (1683-1699), the Tatars were forbidden to invade the lands of the Republic.[3]
During the winter period in the military groupings (Moldavian, Pokuttya, Podestan and Lviv) in the border areas. In Tatar tactics, the most important objective was to obtain loot and to avoid losses of their own, which resulted in avoiding major clashes with enemy troops.[4]
Battle
[edit]On 21 February 1699, at the Dniester crossing near Martynov, there was a clash between Polish forces and part of the Tatar forces. The attack was made by about 600 soldiers including the Wallachians of Adam Sieniawski and the hussars of Michał Warszycki. The Tatars successfully repulsed the Poles and took prisoners.[1]
Aftermath
[edit]The Tatars left with the captured yasir, after crossing the Dniester they continued their plundering on the territory of the Halich lands (area of Podkamień, Rohatyn, Bursztyn and Mariampol) and partially of the Lviv lands. The Tatars left the lands of the Commonwealth around 22–23 February.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Gliwa (2000), p. 70.
- ^ Perłakowski (2009), pp. 388–389.
- ^ Gliwa (2000), p. 59-60.
- ^ Gliwa (2000), p. 60–62.
- ^ Gliwa (2000), p. 67,70.
Notes
[edit]- ^ This was not the last plundering of the territories of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth by the Tatars. Russian Russian troops, with the support of Cossacks and Kalmyks, defeated the Tatars during the Russo-Turkish war near Gorodishchina on February 15, 1739. Before this battle, the Tatars invaded and burned Krylov and Chigirin, and also attacked several villages of the Chigirinsky starost, capturing prisoners. On April 16, the newspaper Z Warszawy reported that the Tatars had released 988 people.[2]
Bibliography
[edit]- Andrzej Gliwa. Straty materialne i demograficzne na terenie ziemi przemyskiej po ostatnim napadzie tatarskim w 1699 r.. „Prace Historyczno-Archiwalne”. IX, s. 56–82, 2000. Rzeszów: Archiwum Państwowe w Rzeszowie. ISSN 1231-3335
- Andrzej Gliwa: Kraina upartych niepogód. Zniszczenia wojenne na obszarze ziemi przemyskiej w XVII wieku. Przemyśl: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Towarzystwa Przyjaciół Nauk w Przemyślu, 2013.
- Adam Perłakowski: Niepokoje pogranicza ukraińskiego i tureckiego w latach 1736–1739 (doniesienia „Gazet Polskich”). W: Maciej Franz (red.), Krzysztof Pietkiewicz (red.): Od Zborowa do NATO (1649 do 2009). Studia z dziejów stosunków polsko-ukraińskich od XVII do XXI wieku. Cz. II: Pod dominacją rosyjską. Toruń: 2009, s. 398–399.