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People: Charles V of France
Location: Douai Nord-Pas-de-Calais France

Poland has since 1614 encouraged rebellions in …

Years: 1620 - 1620
September

Poland has since 1614 encouraged rebellions in the Ottoman vassal principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia, its Ukrainian Cossacks having skirmished with the Ottoman Empire’s Crimean Tatars, and Poland’s King Sigismund III Vasa having stealthily supported the Habsburgs.

General Stanislaus Zolkiewski—who, despite his advanced age (he is over seventy), has continued his active service as a military commander—advances with some ten thousand Polish troops into Moldavia and on September 20, 1620, joined by some Cossacks and Moldavians, defeats a superior Turkish-Tatar army at the battle of Jassy (Iasi).