Draft:Christmas battle on Sich (1674)

The Battle on Sich, which took place on Christmas Day in 1674. The battle took place between the Cossacks and the Ottoman janissaries.

History
15,000 Ottoman janissaries and about 40,000 Tatars approached the Chortomlyk Sich. Having removed the guards, thousands of janissaries quietly entered the Sich. They hoped that the Cossacks would be intoxicated. The Cossack chronicler Samiilo Velychko pointed to an old Cossack, Shevchyk, who had a terrible dream - and when he woke up, he saw the janissaries outside his hut window and woke up the rest of his brothers...

As a result, the Cossacks opened fire from their huts, and then went into hand-to-hand combat with sabers and killed almost all the enemies.

As a result of the battle, 13,000 janissaries and only 50 Cossacks were killed. 150 janissaries were taken prisoner. Many Tatars were also killed, but the exact number is unknown.

For two days, the Cossacks cleared the Sich of enemy corpses, which they dumped into the ice-holes of the frozen Dnieper...