THE BATTLE OF ZHOVTI VODY IN 1648
The battle of Zhovti Vody was the first large scale combat of the national liberation war of the Ukrainian people headed by Boh-dan Khmelnytskyi against the domination of Rzeczpospolita. There the Polish army was utterly defeated.
Moving to Zaporizhzhya in the late 1647 while seeking a shelter from repressions, B. Khmelnytskyi, in spring 1648, was granted the Hetman's mace. After successful negotiations and signing a union treaty with the Crimean khan, the two-thousand detachment Bohdan Khmelnytskyi of Cossacks left Sich in the area of Mykytyn Rih and headed west.
The battle of Zhovti Vody took placed in April-May 1648. On Aprilthe 28, Cossacks captured two soldiers, who said that the Polish army headed by S. Potocki crossed the Zhovti Vody River. B. Km
