Action of Tyniec Abbey
Recorded location from Wikidata; battle sites are often approximate.
Key facts
| Era | Date not recorded (no reliable year in Wikidata) | derived from year |
|---|---|---|
| Location | Poland | Natural Earth (modern borders) |
| Continent | Europe | Natural Earth |
| Coordinates | 50.0194, 19.8022 | Wikidata P625 |
About the battle
The action of (the) Tyniec Abbey was an engagement between the armies of the Russian Empire and the Bar Confederation that took place on 20 May 1771. Russian Major-General Suvorov, in co-operation with Lieutenant-Colonel Shepelev's cavalry, assaulted Lieutenant-Colonel Dumouriez's army on a mountain redoubt fortified with a palisade, trous de loup, and two cannons; near the Tyniec Abbey, the village of Tyniec; but after taking the redoubt twice, they were twice repulsed, however, managed to capture all the cannons; Suvorov refused to retake the redoubt, and withdrew to meet Dumouriez, who had meanwhile brought reinforcements, in the third confrontation at Lanckorona. Almost all the infantry of the Tyniec consisted of recruited Austrian deserters. Thus, although he had numerical superiority, Suvorov was unable to take the high ground at Tyniec, which was moreover fortified and protected by the Vistula from the west. The latter advantage makes it difficult to fully encircle the redoubt.
Text adapted from the Wikipedia article Action of Tyniec Abbey (revision 1370426865), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: excerpted from the article lead section; formatting and citations removed. No text added.
Nearby battles
- Siege of Kraków (1587) 1587 · 11 km
- Siege of Kraków (1657) 1657 · 11 km
- Siege of Kraków 1655 · 11 km
- Battle of Kraków (1914) 1914 · 11 km
- Battles of Lanckorona 1771 · 20 km
- Battle of Skała 1863 · 24 km
Browse more: battles in Poland · Europe · Date not recorded battles