THE BATTLE OF KHOTYN (1621)
In autumn 1621 the Turkish army of sultan Osman II continued the campaign that they had a year before and approached the fortress of
Osman II
Khotyn on the Dniester, which was located near Kamianets in Podillia. The sixteen-year-old Turkish Emperor sought to finally demolish the Polish army, which he had defeated one year earlier near the Moldovan settlement of Tsetsora, leaving the army without its commanders. Turkish occupation was threatening Ukraine. The Cossack chronicler Hryhoriy Hrabianka stated,
"— in 1621, when Osman, the Turkish Tsar, having defeated the Polish forces at Tsetsora, came to the Polish land with a huge army, then Polish King Zygmunt sent his son Wladyslaw against the Turks —"
The might of the Turkish army was impressive. The contempo
