Battle of Chełm

Racławice • Warsaw uprising • Vilna survey • Niemenczyn • Polany • Lipniszki • Szczekociny • Chelm • Soły • Kurlander survey • Golkow • Raszyn • Kolno • Błonie • Warsaw ( 1) • Sałaty • Slonim • Luban • Krupczyce • Terespol • Wielkopolska survey • Łabiszyn • Bydgoszcz • Maciejowice • Kobyłka • Praga • Warsaw ( 2)

The Battle of Chelm was on June 8, 1794 in a suburb of the city of Chelm between the Polish and Russian forces during the Kościuszko Uprising instead.

On June 8, the combined associations of Russian generals Petrowicz Zagriażski and Wilhelm Derfelden met with an army of 16,500 soldiers and 24 cannons on the Polish forces under General Józef Zajaczek with only 6,000 regular soldiers, 14 guns and more than 2,000 peasant soldiers with war scythes.

Zajaczek occupied 1.5 km outside the city 's wooded hills. In the morning the Russian forces launched the attack. After several hours of fighting the heavily defeated Polish lines collapsed under the attacks.

Zajaczek could only try to save by withdrawing the largest possible part of the army.