| Battle of Krupczyce | |||||||
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12,000 men, 39 cannons[1] |
4,000 men, 26 cannons[1] | ||||||
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| 325–700[2] | ~3,000[2] | ||||||
The Battle of Krupczyce was a battle 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.
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- Petrushevsky, Alexander (1884). Generalissimo Prince Suvorov (in Russian). Vol. 2 (1st ed.). St. Petersburg: Типография М. М. Стасюлевича. Retrieved 27 October 2023.
- Herbst, Stanisław (1983). Z dziejów wojskowych powstania kościuszkowskiego 1794 roku. Warsaw.
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