Battle of Lubrze 1656
Recorded location from Wikidata; battle sites are often approximate.
Key facts
| Date | 28 August 1656 | Wikidata |
|---|---|---|
| Year | 1656 | Wikidata P585 (point in time) |
| Era | Early modern (1500–1799) | derived from year |
| Location | Poland | Natural Earth (modern borders) |
| Continent | Europe | Natural Earth |
| War / conflict | Deluge | Wikidata P361 |
| Participants | Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, Sweden | Wikidata P710 |
| Coordinates | 52.0953, 17.3892 | Wikidata P625 |
About the battle
The Battle of Lubrze was a night battle which took place during the Deluge (part of the Second Northern War) in August 1656 between Polish forces under voivode of Kalisz Andrzej Karol Grudziński and a Swedish-Brandenburg force under Jan Wejhard von Wrzesowicz. The Swedish-Brandenburg forces were coming to provide relief to the besieged town of Kalisz, invested by a Polish army under voivode of Malbork Jakub Wejher, brother of Ludwik Wejher.
A small Polish force (between 200 and 500 men) surprised a weakly guarded Swedish-Brandenburg cavalry camp at Lubrze in Greater Poland, near Śrem and Środa Wielkopolska, and 47 km south-east of the voivodeship capital of Poznań.
According to Pierre des Noyers who was a secretary to Her Majesty Polish Queen Marie Louise Gonzaga, in his letter dated September 17, 1656, Andrzej Karol Grudziński, commanding a host of 300 noblemen, was told by the local peasants about a small Swedish command of 200 men in the village of Lubrze. He decided to attack them at night, in a surprise nocturnal action. First, the Poles annihilated the 60 strong night guards and then attacked the remainder of the enemy's command. The swiftness and confusion of the night attack disallowed the Swedes and Brandenburgers to mount their horses.
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