Battle of Sobota

Part of Second Northern War / The Deluge

Date	23 August 1655
Location	near Sobota
Result	Swedish victory

Belligerents

Sweden

Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

Commanders and leaders

Charles X of Sweden

John II Casimir of Poland

Strength

around 25,000

The Deluge

Ujście Danzig Sobota Żarnów 1st Kraków Nowy Dwór Mazowiecki Wojnicz Krosno Jasna Góra Radom Gołąb Jarosław Nisko Zamość Sandomierz Warka Kłecko 1st Warsaw Kcynia Tykocin 2nd Warsaw Łowicz Lubrze 2nd Kraków Prostken Filipów Chojnice Magierów Czarny Ostrów Skałat Toruń Szkudy Grudziądz

Second Northern War

Theaters

"Swedish Deluge" Russo-Swedish (1656–58) Pomerania Dano-Swedish (1657–58) Dano-Swedish (1658–60) Norway Peach Tree War

Battles

Ujście Danzig Sobota Żarnów 1st Cracow Nowy Dwór Wojnicz Krosno Jasna Góra Radom Gołąb Jarosław Nisko Zamość Sandomierz Warka Kłecko 1st Warsaw Kcynia Tykocin 2nd Warsaw Dyneburg Kokenhusen Riga Łowicz Lubrze 2nd Cracow Prostki/Prostken Filipów Chojnice Walk Magierów Czarny Ostrów Skałat March Across the Belts Toruń Kolding Szkudy Copenhagen Sound Ebeltoft Grudziądz Nyborg

Treaties

The Battle of Sobota was a battle that took place near Sobota, Poland, on 23 August 1655, between the armies of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth on the one hand and of Sweden on the other.

After Charles X Gustav's entry into Poland, he made camp at Koło. Here the Swedish king received representatives from John II Casimir of Poland in an attempt to sue for peace. The Polish attempts were in vain and the Swedish king marched towards Warsaw. John II Casimir put up a small army in order to hinder the Swedish advance while seeking assistance from other rulers. The forces clashed on 23 August, resulting in a Swedish victory as the Polish forces were routed after rapid, but intense fighting.^[1]^[2]

After the battle, Charles X Gustav left the majority of his army under the command of field marshal Arvid Wirtenberg von Debern while he himself continued his march towards Warsaw with about 2000 cavalry and 1200 infantry.^[3] Warsaw fell with no resistance on 29 August.

References

↑ Fredrik Ferdinand Carlson, Sveriges historia under konungarne af pfalziska huset, Volume 1, Stockholm: Norstedt, 1855, OCLC 457282269, p. 112 (Swedish).
↑ Carl Efraim Josua Leonhard Wibling, Carl X Gustaf och Georg Rakoczy II, Lund: Berlingska, 1891, p. 13 (Swedish).
↑ Johan Levin Carlbom, Om Karl X Gustafs polska krig och öfvergången till det 2dra. Sundskriget Karl Gustaf Wrangel (1654-1658), Göteborg: Ericson, 1905, OCLC 490761533, p. 16 (Swedish).

Sources

(Swedish) Svenskt Militärhistoriskt Bibliotek
(Polish) Leszek Podhorodecki, Rapier i koncerz, Warsaw 1985, ISBN 83-05-11452-X, pp. 247–248

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