Battle of Batih The Battle of Batih was a battle in 1652 in which Polish forces under Marcin Kalinowski were defeated by Cossacks commanded by Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky . Polish leaders killed included Marcin Kalinowski , his brother Crown camp commander Samuel Jerzy Kalinowski , Zygmunt Przyjemski , starosta of Vinnytsia Jan Odrzywolski , starosta of Terebovlia Iurii Balaban , starosta of Krasnostav Marek Sobieski , " and a whole series of prominent noblemen " . The defeat had severe and long - lasting consequences for the history of Polish - Lithuanian Commonwealth and for Ukraine . The background . " Thus the Treaty of Bila Tserkva was not ratified by the " Polish Diet . " That very winter , by permission of Hetman Khmelnytsky , the Crown troops were deployed by Crown [ Field ] Hetman Kalinowski , who assumed command after Mikolaj Potocki . For Potocki had died that fall . So Kalinowski ' s brother [ Jerzy ] , also a Kalinowski , came to the Trans - Dnipro region . . . Kalinowski himself took up quarters in Nizhen . . . and the Lithuanian army took up quarters in the Starodub region . " " At the first news of the Berestechko debacle , the Muscovite government immediately opened its borders . . . " and , " . . . toward the spring of 1652 . . . Ukrainians emigrated en masse . " " Khmelnytsky mentioned as a casus belli the fact that the Poles had violated the peace agreement by ' annihilating the Cossack towns of Lypovets and Revukha ' and that they were now preparing to make war on the Cossacks . " " Khmelnytsky . . . scheduled a great council at Chyhyryn during Easter week . . . which . . . included Cossack officers and Tatar delegates " and determined that since the Poles did not ratify the Treaty of Bila Tserkva , Khmelnytsky was released from his oath , and the " acts of violence and vengeance perpetrated by the landlords and Starosta s ' officials . . . demonstrated the total impossibility of any coexistence with the Polish elements . " Kalinowski intended to use the Trans - Dnipro Crown army , which in April was ordered by John II Casimir Vasa to gather at Kalinowski ' s Bratslav camp , " to prevent the Cossack army ' s merger with the Horde " by blocking the Horde ' s march " into Moldavia to fight the Hospodar " Basil Lupu . " Khmelnytsky sent his son " , Tymofiy Khmelnytsky , " together with the Tatars to Moldavia , to take revenge militarily on that country ' s ruler for having sworn he would give his daughter in marriage to Khmelnytsky ' s son and then later refusing . " However , the Crown army had only " crossed the river to Kyiv " on 14 June on its way to Kalinowski ' s corps , the Cossack army was already mobilized and merged with the Horde by the end of May , and Kalinowski met them on his own . " The Polish hetman had chosen a flat plain near the Boh and Sob , one so large that the small Polish army could not maintain control of it . . . he insisted that there had to be room for the troops that were coming to join him : for the Trans - Dnipro Poles , a detachment of the palatine of Bratslav , Stanislaw Lanckoronski ( hetman ) , and others that in the end did not manage to join him . " " Khmelnytsky , who had a horde of substantial size athis disposal this time , hurried to attack him before the Polish troops from across the Dnipro and other contingents arrived . " The battle . " When the relatively small Tatar vanguard regiment appeared , the Polish cavalry . . . attacked . . . beginning a battle that lasted through the first day , which was 1 June . During the battle , " Khmelnytsky ' s main forces arrived , and during the night they bypassed the Polish camp in such a way that the Poles did not notice . " On the second day , the cavalry skirmishes resumed but soon Kalinowski " saw himself surrounded by Cossack and Tatar forces on all sides . " " The Cossacks broke through the endless line - more than a mile long - around the camp and entered into its midst . " " When its predicament became clear , the Polish army was swept by panic , insubordination , and mutiny . " " Some fifteen hundred of them fled " , " some perished and others fell into the hands of the Cossacks and Tatars . . . Kalinowski himself was killed . " The massacre . After the battle , the Cossacks paid the Tatars for possession of the prisoners , and promptly slaughtered the Polish captives to avenge Chmielnicki ’ s defeat at Berestechko in June 1651 . All 8 , 000 Polish soldiers were massacred . Other accounts state " Khmenytsky gave almost all the booty to the Tatars but took a certain number of prisoners for himself . . . to spare their lives " in one variant or in another variant , " in order to kill them " . Aftermath . " The situation that existed after Korsun and Pyliavtsi . . . now arose once more " with the Polish forces " shattered . . . Poland defenseless and panic - stricken " . The Battle of Batih destroyed the best Crown units . Although Poland managed to rebuild her army soon after the battle , the loss of the most experienced troops resulted in temporary weakness in Ukraine . Defeat of the Poles contributed to the wars to come with Russia , which in turn resulted in the " Deluge " of the country by Swedish armies .