The Battle of Khotyn or Battle of Chocim or Hotin War is a battle on November 11, 1673, in which Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth forces under hetman Jan Sobieski defeat Ottoman Empire forces under Hussain Pasha.
The battle reverses the fortunes of the previous year, when Commonwealth weakness led to the signing of the Peace of Buczacz, and allows Jan Sobieski to win the upcoming royal election and become the king of Poland.
Polish-Lithuanian forces and Wallachian regiments are thirty thousand strong.
The Turks command thirty-five thousand troops and one hundred and twenty guns.
Rockets of Kazimierz Siemienowicz are deployed successfully in this battle.
The victory allows the Poles to revoke the unfavorable Peace of Buczacz and sets the stage for the role Sobieski is to play in 1683 in the Battle of Vienna.
