Battle of Vedrosha was one of the greatest battles in the medieval history of Russia. It was fought on July 14, 1500, some 50 km to the west of Kaluga, between joint forces of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and Kingdom of Poland under command of Prince Konstantin Ostrozhsky and the Muscovite army under Prince Daniil Shchenya. See also the town of Battle, East Sussex, England Generally, a battle is an instance of combat between two or more parties wherein each group will seek to defeat the others. ... July 14 is the 195th day (196th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 170 days remaining. ... Events Europes population was ~60 million. ... Kaluga (Калу́га) is a city in central Russia 190km South-West from Moscow, administrative center of Kaluga Oblast. ... The presumable banner of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania with the coat of arms, called Пагоня in Belarusian, Vytis in Lithuanian and Pogoń in Polish Another version of the Lithuanian banner The Grand Duchy of Lithuania (Lithuanian: Lietuvos Didžioji Kunigaikštystė, Belarusian: Вялі́кае Кня́ства Літо́ўскае (ВКЛ), Ukrainian: Велике Князівство... This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... For article about other Konstanty Ostrogoski, see Konstanty Wasyl Ostrogski (1526-1608) Noble Family Ostrogski Coat of Arms Ostrogski Parents  ? Consorts Aleksandra Słucka Children with Aleksandra Słucka Konstanty Wasyl Ostrogski Date of Birth Abt. ... This article is about Muscovite Russia. ... Prince Daniil Vasiliyevich Shchenya (Даниил Васильевич Щеня in Russian) (? - no later than 1519) was a Russian military leader during the reigns of Ivan III and Vasili III. In 1489, Shchenya and his army of 64,000 men sieged and captured the city of Khlynov, the inhabitants of which had often...

The outstanding Russian commander employed basically the same tactics as proved successful for the Russian army in the Battle of Kulikovo. Vedrosha was a crushing victory for the Russians. Some 5.000 Lithuanians were killed, and many more were taken prisoner, including Prince Ostrozhsky, the first ever Grand Hetman of Lithuania, himself. The Battle of Kulikovo (Куликовская битва in Russian language), also called Battle on the Snipes Field, was fought between the Tartars and Mongols (the Golden Horde), against the Russians. ... Hetman (from Czech: hejtman, German: Hauptmann, Turkish: Ataman) was the title of the second highest military commander (after the monarch) used in 15th to 18th century Poland and Grand Duchy of Lithuania, known from 1568 to 1795 as the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. ...

The battle led to the peace treaty of 1503, which saw huge territories (about one third of the Grand Duchy) incorporated into the nascent Russian state. Upon his release, Prince Ostrozhsky made several attempts to retaliate, but his brilliant victory at Orsha (1514) didn't entail any political consequences. Events January 20 - Seville in Castile is awarded exclusive right to trade with the New World. ... The Battle of Orsha took place September 8, 1514, between the forces of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and Kingdom of Poland (less than 30,000 troops), under the command of Hetman Konstanty Ostrogski, and the army of Muscovy under Konyushy (конюший, Tsars Equerry) Ivan Chelyadnin (Иван Челяднин) and... Events March - Louis XII of France makes peace with Emperor Maximilian. ...

References

• The battle was described by Sigismund von Herberstein in his Rerum Moscoviticarum Commentarii (1549). Herberstein acidly commented that "in one battle and in one year the Grand Duke of Muscovy achieved what Grand Duke Vytautas had spent all his life in achieving".