Siege of Polotsk

Quand

11 août 1579 – 30 août 1579

Type

Siège

Coordonnées

55.49° N, 28.76° E

Description

1579 siege

Polish–Lithuanian victory of the Livonian War

The siege of Polotsk was a siege by forces of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth under Stephen Báthory on the Russian-held city of Polotsk. Polotsk had been captured and heavily fortified by the Russians under Ivan the Terrible in 1563 because the river Daugava, which led to the key city of Riga, flowed through it.

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