Świecin, Battle of

1462 CE

The Battle of Świecino (named for the village of Świecino, near Żarnowiec Lake, northern Poland) also called the Battle of Żarnowiec or in German Battle of Schwetz, takes place on September 17, 1462 during the Thirteen Years' War.

The Poles commanded by Piotr Dunin, consisting of some two thousand mercenarie and Poles, decisively defeat the twenty-seven hundred-man army of the Teutonic Knights commanded by Fritz Raweneck and Kaspar Nostyc.

Auxiliary forces sent by duke Eric II of Pomerania, an ally of the Polish king, did not enter the battle.

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