Siege of Zbarazh

Siege of Zbarazh
	Part of the Khmelnytsky Uprising
	; The Zbarazh Castle in the present-day of the Ternopil Oblast in Ukraine
Date	10 July — 22 August, 1649
Location	Zbarazh, Volhynian Voivodeship, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
Result	Indecisive Treaty of Zboriv; Creation of the Cossack Hetmanate;
Belligerents
Cossack Hetmanate ; Crimean Khanate	Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
Commanders and leaders
Bohdan Khmelnytsky ; Danylo Nechay ; Ivan Bohun (WIA) ; Kindrat Burliy (WIA) ; Martyn Nebaba ; Ivan Chornota † ; Stanislav Morozenko † ; İslâm III Giray	John II Casimir ; Jeremi Wiśniowiecki ; Aleksander Koniecpolski ; Mikołaj Ostroróg ; Andrzej Firlej ; Brodowski †
Strength
70,000 Zaporozhian Cossacks ; 40,000 Crimean Tatars	10,000–15,000 Polish–Lithuanian infantry and defenders of the castle
Casualties and losses
Heavy	4,000–6,000 killed and wounded ; 4,000–5,000 captured

The siege of Zbarazh (Ukrainian: Облога Збаража, Битва під Збаражем, Polish: Oblężenie Zbaraża, Bitwa pod Zbarażem; 10 July — 22 August, 1649) was fought between the Cossack Hetmanate and Crimean Khanate against the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth as a part of the Khmelnytsky Uprising. Near the site of the present-day city of Zbarazh in Ukraine. The siege lasted for seven weeks.

The Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth’s forces was besieged in the Zbarazh Castle until in the aftermath of the Battle of Zboriv on 15–16 August 1649 and the Treaty of Zboriv on 18 August 1649. The Volhynian towns of Zbarazh and Zboriv are neighboring one another roughly.

The Zaporozhian Cossacks and Crimean Tatars under the command of Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky, Colonels Ivan Bohun, Danylo Nechay, Kindrat Burliy, Ivan Chornota and Stanislav Morozenko with Khan İslâm III Giray paused the siege and it’s ended as a tactical Cossack–Tatar victory against the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth’s forces under the command of the Polish King John II Casimir, Princes Jeremi Wiśniowiecki and Aleksander Koniecpolski, Noblemans Mikołaj Ostroróg and Andrzej Firlej with Brodowski, who was killed in the siege. These events were described by Henryk Sienkiewicz in his novel With Fire and Sword (1884).

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