Draft:Christmas battle on Sich (1674)

Christmas battle on Sich (1674)
Date	25 December 1674
Location	Zaporozhian Sich, Chortomlyk Sich
Result	Cossack victory
Belligerents
Zaporozhian Sich	Ottoman Empire; Crimean Khanate;
Commanders and leaders
Ivan Samoylovych	Mehmed IV
Units involved
Zaporozhian Cossacks	Janissary
Strength
350 Cossacks	15,000 Janissaries; 40,000 Tatars;
Casualties and losses
50 killed	13,000 killed; Unknown, but probably very high;

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The Battle on Sich, which took place on Christmas Day in 1674. The battle took place between the Cossacks and the Ottoman janissaries.^[2]

History edit

15,000 Ottoman janissaries and about 40,000 Tatars approached the Chortomlyk Sich. Having removed the guards, thousands of janissaries quietly entered the Sich. They hoped that the Cossacks would be intoxicated. The Cossack chronicler Samiilo Velychko pointed to an old Cossack, Shevchyk, who had a terrible dream - and when he woke up, he saw the janissaries outside his hut window and woke up the rest of his brothers...

As a result, the Cossacks opened fire from their huts, and then went into hand-to-hand combat with sabers and killed almost all the enemies.

As a result of the battle, 13,000 janissaries and only 50 Cossacks were killed. 150 janissaries were taken prisoner. Many Tatars were also killed, but the exact number is unknown.

For two days, the Cossacks cleared the Sich of enemy corpses, which they dumped into the ice-holes of the frozen Dnieper...^[3]

References edit

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h "Різдвяна битва на Січі" (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 2021-01-07.
^ "Походи Сірка в Крим" (in Russian). Retrieved 2021-05-11.
^ "Різдвяна битва на Січі – Музеї України журнал" (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 2024-03-16.

Sources edit

Samiilo Velychko's Chronicle
The Sultan's Firm... - K., 1986. - T. I.
Dmytro Yavornytskyi. History of Zaporizhian Cossacks.
Adrian Kashchenko. The story of the glorious Zaporozhian grassroots army - Dnipro, 19914. Volodymyr Malyk.
A. Jensen. Mazepa // Vitchyzna. - 1991. - No. 10.

[:0-1] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h "Різдвяна битва на Січі" (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 2021-01-07.

[2] "Походи Сірка в Крим" (in Russian). Retrieved 2021-05-11.

[3] "Різдвяна битва на Січі – Музеї України журнал" (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 2024-03-16.

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