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| rdfs:comment | - On May 16, 1648, Bohdan Khmelnytsky's forces overwhelmed and defeated Commonwealth forces under the command of Stefan Potocki at the Battle of Zhovti Vody. Stefan's father, Grand Crown Hetman Mikołaj Potocki, was unable to send reinforcements in time to relieve him; however, with the number of defections from the force that was sent to fight Khmelnytsky (over 5,000 Registered Cossacks switched their allegiance), it is doubtful that the reinforcements could have helped defeat the combined Cossack and Tatar army of 15,000. With reinforcements only 100 km away when that battle ended, Mikołaj Potocki signaled a retreat to a fortified camp near the present-day city of Korsun-Shevchenkivskyi. There the combined forces (about 6,000 men) of both Field Crown Hetman Marcin Kalinowski and Great Crown
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| Caption | - Juliusz Kossak, Meeting of Tuhaj Bej and Khmelnytsky near Korsun
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| Place | - Korsun-Shevchenkivskyi, Ukraine
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| abstract | - On May 16, 1648, Bohdan Khmelnytsky's forces overwhelmed and defeated Commonwealth forces under the command of Stefan Potocki at the Battle of Zhovti Vody. Stefan's father, Grand Crown Hetman Mikołaj Potocki, was unable to send reinforcements in time to relieve him; however, with the number of defections from the force that was sent to fight Khmelnytsky (over 5,000 Registered Cossacks switched their allegiance), it is doubtful that the reinforcements could have helped defeat the combined Cossack and Tatar army of 15,000. With reinforcements only 100 km away when that battle ended, Mikołaj Potocki signaled a retreat to a fortified camp near the present-day city of Korsun-Shevchenkivskyi. There the combined forces (about 6,000 men) of both Field Crown Hetman Marcin Kalinowski and Great Crown Hetman Mikołaj Potocki awaited to repulse the enemy. Khmelnytsky left the Battle of Zhovti Vody and moved to his base at Chyhyryn with his new recruits. After stopping there, he continued on towards the Commonwealth's encampment.
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