Battle of Shmankivtsi

The place of battle on February 6, 1624 is the village of Shmankivtsi (now Chortkiv Raion, Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine) between the Polish army under the command of Field Crown Hetman Stanislaw Koniecpolski on the one hand and the Tatar horde led by the sons of Murza Budzha Horde Emir-ul-Umar Kan-Temir Bloody Sword on the other thus plundered six towns and 70 villages in the Galician land of the Russian voivodeship. The Nogai tried to save their cache from the attack and began to attack the Polish camp with infantry, but the attack of heavy cavalry led by the hetman himself led to their defeat, killing two sons of Kan-Temir - Jan Temir and Megmed (according to another version, one of the brothers, probably Megmed, escaped). Polish cavalry pursued the Tatars all the way to the forest outside the village. Oryshkivtsi. Tatar fugitives from the battlefield warned another horde led by Ali Murza, which had a cache near the town of Yazlovets (now a village in the Buchach district), about the approach of the royal army and the Murza on the same day ordered to retreat to Bukovina. It is known that during the battle there were such severe frosts that the hands of soldiers froze to arms, and the field hetman himself lost a finger due to frostbite.

Some historians point to Captain Stefan Khmeletsky's participation in this battle, although in fact his unit was commanded by Jan Dzik. This happened because Khmeletsky was wounded by an arrow during a victorious battle somewhere in Podillya with a large Nogai horde led by Sarmash-Murza. In the epistolary of Kyiv voivode Tomasz Zamojski, another place of battle is mistakenly indicated - the neighboring village of Forests.

• Polish army:
  • Soldiers - 3,500
  • Volunteers - 1,500
• Troops of the Ottoman Empire:
  • Only about 5,000 people.

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