Unable to defeat the Poles, the Tatars sent Polish-speaking Lipka Tatars to convince the Polish troops to surrender. Even after the Poles ran out of bullets, they continued to fire at the enemy, using Tatar arrowheads as improvised ammunition for their guns. ![]() For the next 6 hours Polish troops resisted relentless Tatar attacks. Shortly afterwards the Polish forces retreated to Hodów due to overwhelming enemy numbers, and proceeded to fortify themselves using heavy wooden fences left there from earlier Tatar invasions. The 400-strong Polish cavalry charged the 700-strong Tatar vanguard and made them withdraw. The first encounter took place on the fields near Hodów. John III Sobieski, the king of Poland at the time, also mentioned the figure of 40,000. Tatar numbers were estimated at 25,000 to 70,000, with 40,000 being the most commonly quoted figure. The Polish forces sent to stop them consisted of seven banners of hussars and pancerni from the Trenches of the Holy Trinity (Okopy Świętej Trójcy) and The Redoubt of Virgin Mary (Szaniec Panny Marii) strongholds, approximately 400 men in total historian Mirosław Nagielski estimates 100 hussars and 300 pancerni. In June 1694, Tatar Muslim forces raided Polish territory with the intention of pillaging the countryside for loot and capturing prisoners for ransom. ![]() Often it is called the Polish Thermopylae, like the Battle of Wizna. ![]() The Battle of Hodów was a battle between the Kingdom of Poland and Crimean Khanate forces, fought in June 1694 in the Ruthenian Voivodeship of the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland, near the village of Hodów (now in Ternopil Raion, Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine).
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