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Battle of Khotyn (Ottoman vs Polish-Lithuanian)

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The Battle of Khotyn or Battle of Chocim (Turkish: Hotin Muharebesi; Polish : Bitwa pod Chocimiem) was a combined siege and series of battles which took place between 2 September and 9 October 1621 between a Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth army with Cossack allies, commanded by the Grand Hetman of Lithuania Jan Karol Chodkiewicz & Crown Prince Władysław Vasa, and an invading Ottoman Imperial army, led by Sultan Osman II & Grand Vizier Ohrili Hüseyin Pasha at the border fortress of Khotyn in Dniester river. Ottomans retaliate the previous Polish-Lithuanian incursion into Ottoman Moldavia, the invasion was stopped at the Battle of Cecora (Battle of Țuțora) where the entire Polish-Lithuanian Crown army under Hetman Stanislaw Żółkiewski was annihilated by Iskender Pasha & Khan Temir (Cantemir). The siege of Khotyn was stopped on 9 October, due to the lateness of the season and heavy losses - due to failed assaults on Commonwealth fortifications - and t

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