Battle of Ujście
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Battle of Ujście | |||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Part of The Deluge | |||||||
|
|||||||
Belligerents | |||||||
Swedish | Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth | ||||||
Commanders | |||||||
Field marshal Arvid Wittenberg | Krzysztof Opaliński Andrzej Grudziński |
||||||
Strength | |||||||
17000 | 14400 (13000 pospolite ruszenie and 1400 infantry) |
|
The Battle of Ujście was fought on July 24-July 25, 1655 between forces of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth commanded by Krzysztof Opaliński and Andrzej Grudziński on one side, and on the other Swedish forces commanded by Arvid Wittenberg. Krzysztof Opaliński and Bogusław Leszczyński, dissatisfied with policies of Jan Kazimierz, decided to become Swedish allies together with their pospolite ruszenie of Greater Poland to Charles X Gustav of Sweden.