Dictionary of Battles / From the Earliest Date to the Present Time

by Thomas Benfield Harbottle

Berestecko.

Fought 1653, between the Poles 100,000 strong under John II, and a large army of Wallachians, Lithuanians, and Ukraine Tartars, 300,000 in all, under Bogdan of Wallachia. After a sanguinary battle, the Poles were completely victorious, defeating Bogdan with enormous loss.