The battle of Prostki took place during the Second Northern War and was a
decisive victory of Polish-Lithuanian forces numbering 10,000 men
(mostly regular cavalry) supported by 2,000 Tatars and led by hetman
Wincenty Gosiewski over a Swedish-Brandenburgian army of 6,500 regulars
(nearly half of them infantry) reinforced by 800 Lithuanian-Polish
cavalry of prince Boguslav Radziwill and led by prince Georg Friedrich
von Waldeck.
The battle was portrayed in the Polish movie "Potop" from 1974:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Delu...
The battle was portrayed in the Polish movie "Potop" from 1974:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Delu...
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