Siege of Fellin

Siege of Fellin Part of the Polish–Swedish War (1600–11) Hetman Jan Zamoyski Date March 25 – May 17, 1602 Location Fellin, present day Estonia 58°22′N 25°36′E / 58.367°N 25.600°E / 58.367; 25.600Coordinates: 58°22′N 25°36′E / 58.367°N 25.600°E / 58.367; 25.600 Result Polish victory Belligerents Sweden Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth Commanders and leaders Jan Zamoyski Stanisław Żółkiewski Jürgen von Farensbach † Strength 800 5,000

Polish–Swedish War of 1600–11 Karksi Lambazi Wenden Ergle Kokenhausen Wolmar Fellin Reval Weissenstein (siege) Rakvere Pärnu (1603) Narva Weissenstein Kircholm Daugavgrīva (1608) Pärnu Salis Riga Pärnu (1609) Daugavgriva (1609)

The Siege of Fellin took place between March 25 and 17 May 1602 during the Polish–Swedish War (1600–1611). Polish and Lithuanian forces led by Grand Crown Hetman Jan Zamoyski besieged the Swedish-held town of Fellin (present day Viljandi in Estonia). The large Polish–Lithuanian army of around 5,000 troops first took the town, while the Swedish defenders, numbering around 800, retreated to the city's castle. After a second frontal attack on the castle, during which the Voivode of Wenden Jerzy Farensbach was killed, the Swedish garrison capitulated, although a group of Finnish soldiers refused to surrender and blew themselves up in the castle's tower. Fellin was later recaptured by the Swedes in the siege of 1608.^[1]

References

• Podhorodecki, Leszek. Rapier i koncerz: z dziejów wojen polsko-szwedzkich. Książka i Wiedza. Warsaw. 1985.