Battle of Shepelevichy

Battle of Szepielewicze

Date	August 24-25 1654
Location	Shepelevichy, present-day Belarus
Result	Russian victory

Belligerents

Commanders

Strength

7,000^{[citation needed]}

40,000-80,000^{[citation needed]}

Russo-Polish War (1654–1667)

Basya – Barysaw – Chudniv – Horodok – Ozerna – Konotop – Kushliki – Lyakhavichy – Lyubar – Lake Medyol – Mahylyow – Okhmativ – Polonka – Slobodyshche – Smolensk– Shepelevichy – Shklow 1654 – Shklow 1664 – Stavishchy – Verki – Wilno – Vitebsk

The Battle of Shepelevichy (Szepielewicze) on 24 August 1654 was one of the first battles of the Russo-Polish War (1654–1667); it ended with a Russian victory. A small Polish-Lithuanian force of about 7,000 under Great Lithuanian Hetman Janusz Radziwiłł tried to stop a numerically superior Russian force (of 40,000-80,000^{[citation needed]}) under knyaz Aleksey Trubetskoy near Shepelevichy. Radziwiłl had previously stopped a similar Russian incursion at Shklow, but this time the even larger Russian army managed to outflank him and defeat his forces; on the 25 August the retreating Polish army was defeated and its artillery captured by the Russians.