Action of Tyniec Abbey explained

Conflict:Action of the Tyniec Abbey
Partof:the war of the Bar Confederation
Date:May 20, 1771
Place:Tyniec, Kraków Voivodeship
Result:Confederate victory
Combatant1: Russia
Combatant2:
Commander1: Alexander Suvorov
Pyotr Shepelev
Commander2: Charles François Dumouriez
Strength1:3,600 (in all)
  • Unknown number engaged
Strength2:800 (in all)
  • Unknown number engaged
Casualties1:90 dead and injured
Casualties2:100 dead,
75 prisoners of war,
2 cannons

The action of (the) Tyniec Abbey was an engagement between the armies of the Russian Empire and the Bar Confederation that took place on 20 May 1771. Russian Major-General Suvorov, in co-operation with Lieutenant-Colonel Shepelev's cavalry, assaulted Lieutenant-Colonel Dumouriez's army on a mountain redoubt fortified with a palisade, trous de loup, and two cannons; near the Tyniec Abbey, the village of Tyniec; but after taking the redoubt twice, they were twice repulsed, however, managed to capture all the cannons; Suvorov refused to retake the redoubt, and withdrew to meet Dumouriez, who had meanwhile brought reinforcements, in the third confrontation at Lanckorona. Almost all the infantry of the Tyniec consisted of Austrian deserters.

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