Qualla: Battle of Korsun https://qualla.com/battle-of-korsun en-us © 2026 Bendyline Thu, 23 Jul 2026 20:34:14 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Battle of Korsun https://qualla.com/battle-of-korsun Battle of Korsun: Introduction https://qualla.com/battle-of-korsun/ Three hundred years before tanks churned this same ground, an army walked into a trap here at Korsun and never walked out. In late May 1648, only days after the disaster at Zhovti Vody, the main field army of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth found itself pinned near the Ros River by Bohdan Khmelnytsky's Cossacks and their Crimean Tatar allies. Its two commanding Hetmans decided to retreat, not knowing that the road they chose led straight into a ravine the Cossacks had spent the night preparing. The Battle of Korsun was the second great victory of the Khmelnytsky Uprising, and it left the Commonwealth without an army or a general.

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]]> Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/8/y/1/battle-of-korsun-wp/u8y1-battle-of-korsun-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Battle of Korsun: The Army That Came Too Late https://qualla.com/battle-of-korsun/ The catastrophe was already in motion before Korsun. On 16 May 1648, Khmelnytsky's forces had destroyed a Polish vanguard at Zhovti Vody, and thousands of registered Cossacks who had marched for the Crown switched sides. The Grand Crown Hetman Mikolaj Potocki, whose own son had c...

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]]> Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/8/y/1/battle-of-korsun-wp/u8y1-battle-of-korsun-the-army-that-came-too-late.mp3 0:06 2 full Battle of Korsun: Crooked-Nose Lays the Trap https://qualla.com/battle-of-korsun/ Facing a larger enemy and cut off from relief, Potocki did the sensible thing and decided to retreat, forming his men and wagons into a defensive column, the tabor, for the march to Bohuslav. But Khmelnytsky had read the move. He sent his fierce colonel Maksym Kryvonis, nicknamed...

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]]> Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/8/y/1/battle-of-korsun-wp/u8y1-battle-of-korsun-crooked-nose-lays-the-trap.mp3 0:06 3 full Battle of Korsun: Into the Ravine https://qualla.com/battle-of-korsun/ At dawn the retreat began, and the Cossacks and Tatars let it come, shadowing the column but holding back until the Poles were deep inside the valley at noon. Then the ground itself closed on them. Wagons jammed against the barricades, cavalry could not maneuver on the boggy floo...

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]]> Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/8/y/1/battle-of-korsun-wp/u8y1-battle-of-korsun-into-the-ravine.mp3 0:06 4 full Battle of Korsun: The Road to a Nation https://qualla.com/battle-of-korsun/ In two swift blows, Zhovti Vody and Korsun, Khmelnytsky had annihilated the field forces of one of Europe's great powers and captured both its senior commanders. The Commonwealth was left, for a stunned moment, without an army in the field and without a Hetman to lead one. Khmeln...

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