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defeated. Its leaders M. Pototsky and hetman
M. Kalynovsky were captured. These two
first battles resulted in the fact, that Polish
army was defeated for the first time in
Ukraine and these victories gave a powerful
incentive to a popular uprising on the whole
territory of Ukraine. By the middle of the
summer Kyiv, Bratslav and eastern powiats of
were liberated from the Polish.
September The battle of Pylyavtsi. After death of Polish
1648 king Vladyslav ІІІ (May, 1648) the period of
royal power absence of began, the process of
new king election was going on. Seim
announced mobilization and convocation of
the so-called “Pospolite ruszenie” (szlachta
mobilization), directed almost 100-thousand
army to crush an uprising in Ukraine. B.
Khmelnytsky gained a magnificent victory,
having taken a great number of trophies under
the town of Pylyavtsi in Podillya. They
included 100 guns and many other weapons,
imperial regalia and other. Kodak fortress,
which had held the defence for nearly half a
year, capitulated in a week.
September- The siege of Lviv. The victory of Pylyavtsi
October gave an incentive to a new wave of uprisings,
1648 particularly in Halychyna. B. Khmelnytsky’s
troops after continuous debates (there was an
idea to take the line along the Sluch river,
fortified positions and hold the line against
the Polish) advanced against Lviv.
Khmelnytsky had an opportunity to take Lviv
(Vysokyi Zamok had already been taken by

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