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Imagined river crossing; troop positions are interpretive.
Battle
Battle of Kłecko
7 V 1656
DocumentedForces led by Stefan Czarniecki and Jerzy Sebastian Lubomirski fought the Swedes at Kłecko. The Polish Army Museum assesses the outcome as a Swedish victory.
- Names and variants
- pl Bitwa pod Kłeckiem
The map shows the town or area of the event; it does not reconstruct troop positions.
Course of events
Forces led by Stefan Czarniecki and Jerzy Sebastian Lubomirski fought the Swedes at Kłecko. The Polish Army Museum assesses the outcome as a Swedish victory.1
A closer look
Czarniecki and Jerzy Sebastian Lubomirski marched into Greater Poland to support local resistance. The museum estimates about 15,000 soldiers and levymen against roughly 6,000 Swedes with strong artillery. Their attempt to lure the enemy into an ambush did not produce a victory.1
How is the outcome assessed?
The Polish Army Museum calls the battle a Swedish victory. The Integrated Educational Platform describes it as inconclusive, stressing the failure to draw the Swedes onto open ground and the Polish shortage of infantry and guns.12 These are different assessments of the same engagement.
Troop figures also differ. The older Czarniecki biography gives about 9,000 Poles and 8,000 Swedes, unlike the museum’s estimates. None of these figures should be read as an exact attendance roll.3
Notes
- Bitwa pod Kłeckiem, Oś czasu, Warszawa: Muzeum Wojska Polskiego w Warszawie
- Rzeczpospolita wojuje (XVI/XVII w.), Zintegrowana Platforma Edukacyjna
- Władysław Czapliński, Czarniecki Stefan, herbu Łodzia (1599–1665), Polski słownik biograficzny, t. 4, Kraków: Polska Akademia Umiejętności, 1938
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History
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- Jerzy Sebastian Lubomirski Historical figure
Sources for this page
- Bitwa pod Kłeckiem, Oś czasu, Warszawa: Muzeum Wojska Polskiego w Warszawie (Institution)
- Rzeczpospolita wojuje (XVI/XVII w.), Zintegrowana Platforma Edukacyjna (Institution)
- Władysław Czapliński, Czarniecki Stefan, herbu Łodzia (1599–1665), Polski słownik biograficzny, t. 4, Kraków: Polska Akademia Umiejętności, 1938 (Reference work)