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The ”’Siege of Bar”’ was a siege of a Polish garrison led by [[Bernard Pretwicz]] in the fortress [[Bar, Ukraine|Bar]] (now [[Ukraine]]) by Moldavian-Wallachian army. Siege failed and the Allied army withdrew to [[Ottoman Empire]], but at the same time Pretwicz was soon deposed from the seat of starosta in Bar. |
The ”’Siege of Bar”’ was a siege of a Polish garrison led by [[Bernard Pretwicz]] in the fortress [[Bar, Ukraine|Bar]] (now [[Ukraine]]) by Moldavian-Wallachian army. Siege failed and the Allied army withdrew to [[Ottoman Empire]], but at the same time Pretwicz was soon deposed from the seat of starosta in Bar. |
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Revision as of 21:39, 26 October 2025
The Siege of Bar was a siege of a Polish garrison led by Bernard Pretwicz in the fortress Bar (now Ukraine) by Moldavian-Wallachian army. Siege failed and the Allied army withdrew to Ottoman Empire, but at the same time Pretwicz was soon deposed from the seat of starosta in Bar.
Background
Bernard Pretwicz was an active participant of the “border war”,[a] of XVI century. He led numerous campaigns against the Tatars, reportedly winning over 70 battles against them. His most well-known raids took place in March 1540, when he attacked Ochakov and Akkerman, in 1545, when he led a major naval expedition and sacked Ochakov,[2] in 1547 and 1548, when he twice raided Jedisan.[3]According to some sources, the attack on Ukrainian lands was directly ordered by Suleiman the Magnificent as a response to Pretwicz’s border raids on the Ottoman and Tatar territories.[4][1]
Siege
On 13 of February 1550, a large 5,000-strong Moldavian-Wallachian army crossed the Dniester river near Mohyliv and attacked Bar.
Aftermath
After the failure of their assaults, Moldavians withdrew to the Ottoman territories, destroying the villages that laid in their path.[5][4] Pretwicz had explained the Moldavian invasion by the willing to devastate the local villages and to return the Moldavian colonizers that had escaped to Podolia.[6]
Notes
- ^ The name given by Hrushevskyi to the conflict that consisted the Tatar raids into Ukrainian lands and the counter-raids by border starostas and Zaporozhian Cossacks
