Battle of Pyliavtsi

Part of the Khmelnytsky Uprising

Date	September 23, 1648
Location	Pyliava (Piławce), Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, present Ukraine
Result	Decisive Cossack-Tatar victory

Belligerents

Zaporozhian Cossack
Crimean Tatars

Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

Commanders and leaders

Bohdan Khmelnytsky
Tugay Bey

Władysław Dominik Zasławski-Ostrogski
Mikołaj Ostroróg
Aleksander Koniecpolski
Jeremi Wisniowiecki

Strength

30,000 and 3,000 Tatars

30,000

Casualties and losses

Unknown

Battle of Pyliavtsi (Ukrainian: Пилявцi; Polish: Piławce); September 23, 1648) was the third significant battle of the Khmelnytsky Uprising. Near the site of the present-day village of Pyliava, which at that time belonged to the Kingdom of Poland, and now lies in central-western Ukraine, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth forces met a numerically superior force of Ukrainian Cossacks and Crimean Tatars under the command of Bohdan Khmelnytsky and Tugay Bey. The Commonwealth forces were dealt a third consecutive defeat.

At the beginning of the Khmelnytsky uprising in the early months of 1648, Polish forces tried to suppress it but suffered two defeats at the battle of Zhovti Vody and Korsun. This was followed by the death of king Władysław IV on 20 May N.S. and Chancellor Jerzy Ossolinski called for a congress of notables in Warsaw on 9 June, at which Zaslawski, Ostrorog and Koniecpolski were designated provisional commanders, and Adam Kisiel was instructed to enter into negotiations with Khmelnytsky. By 27 June, the Bratslav region, Volhynia and the southern Kyiv region were engulfed by the uprising, Khmelnytsky had halted at Bila Tserkva, Tughay Bey foraged with his horde, and the khan had returned to the Crimea with two hundred thousand captives. By August, Kysil's commission had failed and this period of truce was coming to an end.

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