Battle of Berestechko. Who betrayed whom?
The battle that took place in 1651 between the army of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Zaporozhye-Tatar army of Hetman Khmelnytsky not far from the western Ukrainian village of Berestechko is not very well known among the general public, and those who have heard about it know only fragmentary information, they say, “the khan betrayed Khmelnitsky and led the horde away, the hetman rushed to catch up with them, and the treacherous Crimeans took him...