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Жарких М. І. Битва на Ворсклі 1399 р.Жарких М. І. Битва на Ворсклі 1399 р. – К.: р. (Мережева публікація) Language of edition: ukrainian Historical period: 1399 Goal of the campaign Composition of coalition Route of march Course of battle Survivors and the dead Consequences of the battle Historiography 1. Battle of the Vorskla River is relatively well covered in the written sources, created by contemporaries of the events. These sources were written in Moscow, Marienburg and Krakow. In the Grand Duchy of Lithuania there was no own memory of this battle has been preserved, its details were borrowed from Moscow, and later – also from Polish historical works. 2. For a campaign led by Vytautas were concentrated large forces of the coalition of Catholic states (Grand Duchy of Lithuania, the Teutonic Order, Poland). The march was attended by Orthodox princes – Vytautas vassals, and a detachment from Moldova, but they do not play an independent political role. 3. The aim of the campaign was the assertion Tokhtamysh on the throne of the Golden Horde and its subordination to the authority of Vytautas. 4. Khan Temir Kutlug took seriously the threat and concentrate more power to resist. 5. Defeat Lithuanian army was due to tactical advantage of the Tatars, who were able to properly dispose of their existing forces. 6. Vytautas’ defeat marked the termination of the expansion of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the south, its border has not moved farther south than Cherkassy for all subsequent time (up to 1569). Strategic refusal of military activity has put the Lithuanian ownership on the lands of modern Ukraine in the borderland position, open to the constant attacks of the Tatars. 7. As regard to area of mobilization, coalition forces participating complexity, duration of the campaign (5 months from May to September 1399), this war must be considered very ambitious for its time. For all these indicators, it is significantly higher than the Battle of Kulikovo in 1380, and can be compared only to that of the battle of Nikopol 1396. CategoriesAuthor: Zharkikh Mykola Ivanovych (1956 –) Subject: Battle on Vorskla river 1399 |
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