Atlas of Battles

commander, 6 engagements

Battles of Wincenty Korwin Gosiewski

Battles of Wincenty Korwin Gosiewski

Polish-Lithuanian politician, 1620 to 1662

Wincenty Korwin Gosiewski is recorded as a commander at 6 placed engagements in the atlas between 1649 and 1658: 6 battles across 3 present-day countries, most in Belarus (2), Lithuania (2), Poland (2). Taken in date order, the sites lie 995 km apart end to end, 199 km between engagements on average. Most belong to Russo-Polish War (3), Khmelnytsky Uprising (1), Second Northern War (1).

Battle of FilipówBattle of LoyewBattle of ShepelevicheBattle of VilniusBattle of ProstkenBattle of WerkiBattle of LoyewBattle of ShepelevicheBattle of VilniusBattle of ProstkenBattle of WerkiMinskBrestHomyelVitsyebskChernobylKaunasMahilyowLublinBiałystokBabruysk200 km53.341N, 26.617E
6 placed engagements, coloured by era. Present-day coastlines; ringed marks are the most widely documented.

Engagements by year

1649: 1 engagements1654: 1 engagements1655: 1 engagements1656: 2 engagements2 in 16561658: 1 engagements16491658
6 dated engagements, one bar per year, coloured by era.

In time order

Battle of Loyew, 1649Battle of Shepeleviche, 1654Battle of Vilnius, 1655Battle of Prostken, 1656Battle of Filipów, 1656Battle of Werki, 165816491658
One tick per dated engagement; each tick is a link.

Wars 4

Engagements by date

DateEngagementPlaceFrom the lastResult
1649Battle of LoyewBelarusPolish–Lithuanian victory
24 August 1654Battle of ShepelevicheŠapialievičy, Belarus258 km NRussian victory
29 July 1655Battle of VilniusVilnius, Lithuania283 km WRusso–Cossack victory
8 October 1656Battle of ProstkenEłk, Poland215 km SWPolish–Lithuanian–Tatar victory
22 October 1656Battle of FilipówFilipów, Poland55 km NSwedish-Brandenburger victory
24 September 1658Battle of WerkiVerkiai, Lithuania184 km ERussian victory

Sources and method

Commanders come from the commander fields of the English Wikipedia infoboxes of these engagements (CC BY-SA 4.0), resolved to one article each; portrait, dates and description from Wikidata (CC0) and Wikimedia Commons, Workshop of Daniel Schultz, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Distances are great-circle distances between recorded sites, not marches.