The Battle of Kumeyky was fought during the

Pavlyuk Uprising The Pavliuk uprising of 1637 was a Cossack uprising in Left-bank Ukraine and Zaporizhia headed by Pavlo Pavliuk against the abuses of the nobility and magnates of Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. The uprising was sparked by several Cossacks bein ...

between the

Polish crown The Crown of the Kingdom of Poland (; ) was a political and legal concept formed in the 14th century in the Kingdom of Poland, assuming unity, indivisibility and continuity of the state. Under this idea, the state was no longer seen as the pa ...

forces and insurgent

Cossacks The Cossacks are a predominantly East Slavic languages, East Slavic Eastern Christian people originating in the Pontic–Caspian steppe of eastern Ukraine and southern Russia. Cossacks played an important role in defending the southern borde ...

on December 16, 1637. The Polish crown army under the command of

Mikołaj Potocki Mikołaj "Bearpaw" Potocki (; 1595 – 20 November 1651) was a Polish nobleman, magnate and Field Crown Hetman of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth from 1637 to 1646, Grand Hetman of the Crown from 1646 to 1651, governor of Bracław Voivo ...

defeated Cossacks commanded by

Pavlo Pavliuk Pavlo Pavliuk, or Pavlo Mikhnovych (; ; died 1638 in Warsaw) was a Colonel of Registered Cossacks (), who was elected as a hetman and led a Cossack-peasant uprising (the Pavliuk Uprising) in Left-bank Ukraine and Zaporizhia. The uprising agains ...

References

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