Battle of Zhovti Vody
Schowti Vody ( 1648) - Korsun ( 1648) - Starokostjantyniw ( 1648) - Piljawzi ( 1648) - Pohost ( 1648) - Lojew I ( 1649) - IDF ( 1649) - Zbaraj ( 1649) - Sboriw ( 1649) - Krasne (1651 ) - Kopytschynzi ( 1651) - Berestechko ( 1651) - Lojew II ( 1651) - Bila Tserkva ( 1651) - Batoh ( 1652) - Kamjanez - Podilskyj ( 1652) - Monastyryschtsche (1653) - Suceava ( 1653) - Schwanez (1653)
The Battle of Schowti Vody (Ukrainian Жовті Води, Polish: Żółte Vody ) was held from May 16, 1648 April 29. She was the first battle of the Khmelnytsky Uprising between the allied forces of the Zaporozhian Cossacks under Bohdan Khmelnytsky and the Crimean Tatars on the one hand and the Polish-Lithuanian forces under Stefan Potocki other. The battle was named after the nearby river Schowta on which they, at the present village of Schowte 20 km north of Schowti Vody (Ukraine ) took place.
Background
Due to the growing repression and restrictions on the rights of Ukrainian Cossacks by the Polish magnates they began to rebel against the foreign rule.
When the Polish Hetman Mikołaj Potocki [Note 1] the rebellion of the Cossacks found out he moved, the Polish-Lithuanian armed force ahead, now in Ukraine, without waiting for the aid of other units of voivode Jeremi Wiśniowiecki to the rebellion to throw. He divided his army into three parts, one of these parts, standing under the command of Mikołaj Potocki's son, Stefan Potocki and Stefan Czarnecki, marched into the steppe. Stefan Potocki's army group initially consisted of about three thousand soldiers, including about 1,200 registered Cossacks.
Course of the battle
As of April 27, the first skirmishes between the Polish and Tatar vanguard scouts were held. On April 29, it came to the first major fighting between the Polish army and the Tatars under Tuhaj Bey. Surprised by the presence of the Tartars and the strength of the opposing forces, the Polish army moved into a fortified camp quickly back to wait for help to the rest of the army, which was, however, up to 200 km away and no longer in the course of events could intervene. This prompted the siege of the Polish troops. After the Polish troops belonging registered Cossacks defected to the troops Chmelnyzkyjs, the rest of the Polish-Lithuanian army was continuous rearguard action almost completely destroyed in a few days.
Output
The battle ended with a complete victory of the Cossacks and Tatars on the Polish-Lithuanian army and the death of the Polish troops leader Stefan Potocki, the capture of Stefan Czarnecki. She had political and military importance, as they presented the potential success of an insurrection of the Cossacks against Polish rule in view, and the military strength of the Cossack army to the test.