Siege

Siege of Dorogobuzh

14 Oct 1632 – 30 Oct 1632 · 54.92° N, 33.31° E

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14 Oct 1632 – 30 Oct 1632
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Siege
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54.92° N, 33.31° E
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1632 siege

Siege of Dorogobuzh

The siege of Dorogobuzh took place in October 1632, during the Smolensk War. Russian forces under Fyodor Sukhatin and Aleksander Lesley managed to capture the fortress of Dorogobuzh, which was held by some 300 Polish-Lithuanian soldiers, supported by an unknown number of Zaporozhian Cossacks, loyal to the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.

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