Conflict: | Battle of Krupczyce |
Partof: | the Kościuszko Uprising |
Date: | 17 September 1794 (6th O.S.) |
Place: | Krupczyce, Brest Litovsk Voivodeship, Grand Duchy of Lithuania |
Result: | Russian victory |
Combatant1: | Russia |
Combatant2: | Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth |
Commander1: | Alexander Suvorov Fyodor Buksgevden |
Commander2: | Stanisław Kosmowski |
Strength1: | 12,000 men, 39 cannons[1] [2] |
Strength2: | 4,000 men, 26 cannons |
Casualties1: | 325–700[3] |
Casualties2: | ~3,000 killed, wounded, or captured (Suvorov's report)
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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.