Battle of Koniecpol

Battle in the Great Northern War
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50°47′N 19°41′E / 50.783°N 19.683°E / 50.783; 19.683Result Augustus supporters victoryBelligerents Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (supporters of king Augustus II the Strong) Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (supporters of king Stanisław Leszczyński)Commanders and leaders Jakub Zygmunt Rybiński
Ludwik Konstanty Pociej Józef PotockiStrength 10,000 men 10,000 menCasualties and losses 200 killed,
unknown number of wounded[1] 380 killed,
1,000 wounded,
2,000 captured[1]
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Denmark and Holstein-Gottorp (1700)
Swedish Baltic dominions
Courland and Western Lithuania
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Moldavia
Swedish German dominions
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invasion of Russia

The Battle of Koniecpol was an encounter in November 1708 during the Great Northern War.

History

Near Koniecpol in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, pro-Swedish forces under Stanisław Leszczyński met with anti-Swedish forces of the Sandomierz Confederation, loyal to Augustus the Strong and allied with Russia. Both armies had a strength of about 10,000 men.[2] Leszczyński was defeated, and thus unable to aid Charles XII of Sweden in the Russian campaign.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c Dorrell, Nicholas. The Dawn of the Tsarist Empire: Poltava & the Russian Campaigns of 1708—1709, Partizan Press (2009). pp 149
  2. ^ Frost, Robert I (2000). The Northern Wars. War, State and Society in Northeastern Europe 1558-1721. Harlow: Longman. p. 270. ISBN 978-0-582-06429-4.