Battle of Krupczyce

Battle of Krupczyce
Part of the Kościuszko Uprising
Fighting for a river crossing Aleksander Orłowski
Date 17 September 1794 (6th O.S.) Location Krupczyce, Brest Litovsk Voivodeship, Grand Duchy of Lithuania (today part of Chyzhewshchyna, Belarus) Result Russian victory
Belligerents
Russia	Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
Commanders and leaders
Alexander Suvorov Fyodor Buksgevden Ivan Isaev [ru] Georgy Shevich [ru] Pyotr Islenyev [ru]	Karol Sierakowski [pl] Stanisław Kosmowski
Strength
12,000 men, 39 cannons[1][2]	4,000 men, 26 cannons[1][2]
Casualties and losses
325–700[3]	~3,000 killed, wounded, or captured[3][a] (Suvorov's report) 300 killed[4] (Polish source)

The Battle of Krupczyce took place between the Russian Empire's armed forces under the command of Alexander Vasilyevich Suvorov and Kościuszko's Polish rebels under Karol Józef Sierakowski east of Brest (near the Krupczyce Abbey), present-day Belarus, on September 17, 1794. It was part of the Kościuszko Uprising and ended with the defeat of the rebels.

Notes

1. "The Poles lost many killed; most of Suvorov's historiographers put their figure at 3,000 men. It is probably exaggerated, but in any case it must be high, since the battle was characterised by great persistence, and the Russian infantry almost constantly acted with bayonets. In his report Suvorov says that the Poles lost 3,000 men killed, wounded and prisoners; this is closer to the truth."

Refs

1. Herbst
2. Гiстарычная брама № 1 (22) 2004 г. (in Belarusian)
3. Petrushevsky
4. Mała Encyklopedia Wojskowa (1 ed.). 1967.

Sources

• Petrushevsky, Alexander (1884). "Польская война: Крупчицы, Брест; 1794" [Polish war: Krupczyce, Brest; 1794]. Generalissimo Prince Suvorov (in Russian). Vol. 2 (1st ed.). St. Petersburg: Типография М. М. Стасюлевича. pp. 45–74. Retrieved 27 October 2023.
• Herbst, Stanisław (1983). Z dziejów wojskowych powstania kościuszkowskiego 1794 roku. Warsaw. pp. 359–372.