Battle of Korsuń

Battle of Korsuń
	Part of the Khmelnytsky Uprising
	; Meeting of Bohdan Khmelnytsky with Tugay Bey in Korsuń. Painting by Juliusz Kossak in 1885
Date	25–26 May 1648
Location	Korsuń, Kyiv Voivodeship, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
Result	Cossack–Tatar victory
Belligerents
Zaporozhian Host; Crimean Khanate	Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
Commanders and leaders
Bohdan Khmelnytsky; Mykhailo Krychevsky; Ivan Bohun; Ivan Sirko; Maksym Kryvonis; Martyn Pushkar; Matviy Hladky; Mykhailo Hromyka; Tugay Bey	Mikołaj Potocki (POW); Marcin Kalinowski (POW)
Strength
15,000–20,000 Cossacks and rebels; 3,000 Tatars; 26 cannons	4,000–20,000; 41 cannons
Casualties and losses
Light	500 killed, 95% of the Army taken prisonerc. 10,000 killed; 8,500 captured; All cannons captured

The Battle of Korsuń (Ukrainian: Битва під Корсунем, Корсунська битва, Polish: Bitwa pod Korsuniem, Korsuńska bitwa; 25–26 May 1648) was the second significant battle of the Khmelnytsky Uprising. Near the site of the present-day city of Korsun-Shevchenkivskyi in Ukraine, a forces of the Zaporozhian Host and Crimean Khanate under the command of Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky, Colonels Mykhailo Krychevsky, Ivan Bohun, Maksym Kryvonis, Martyn Pushkar, Matviy Hladky and Mykhailo Hromyka with Tugay Bey attacked and defeated the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth’s forces under the command of Hetmans Mikołaj Potocki and Marcin Kalinowski, both of them was captured in the battle by the Zaporozhian Cossacks and Crimean Tatars. As in the Battle of Zhovti Vody in 29 April — 16 May, 1648 the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth’s forces took a defensive position, retreated and were thoroughly routed and destroyed by the forces of the Zaporozhian Host and Crimean Khanate.