Lithuania lost Smolensk, huge part of Belarus and Kiev
Belligerents
Golden Horde
Support by: Principality of Moscow[1]
Grand Duchy of Lithuania Kingdom of Poland Principality of Kiev Principality of Polotsk Principality of Smolensk Principality of Bryansk Moldavia Wallachia Teutonic Knights Forces of Tokhtamysh
Commanders and leaders
Edigu Temür Qutlugh
Grand Duke Vytautas Tokhtamysh Ivan Borisovich † Andrey of Polotsk † Demetrius I Starshy † Gleb Svyatoslavich † Spytko II of Melsztyn † Hanus † Thomas Surville †
Strength
90,000[2]
100,000 with 50 princes[1]
Casualties and losses
Unknown
most of the army destroyed (including 11 Teutonic Knights, notably Thomas Surville and Hanus)
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Golden Horde conflicts
Nevruy's campaign (1252)
Kuremsa's campaign (1252–55)
Tugova Hill (1257)
Burundai's campaign (1258–1260)
Rostov (1289)
Dyuden's campaign (1293)
Kiev (1299)
Bortenevo (1317)
Tver (1327)
Great Troubles (1359–81/2)
Vorskla River (1399)
Kiev (1399)
Edigu's campaign (1408)
Kiev (1416)
Sarai (1420)
Odoyev (1424)
Muscovite–Horde battles
The Bityug River (1450)
Moscow (1451)
Aleksin (1472)
Ugra (1480)
The Battle of the Vorskla River was fought on August 12, 1399, between the Tatars of the Golden Horde, under Edigu and Temür Qutlugh, and the armies of Tokhtamysh and a large Crusader force led by Grand Duke Vytautas of Lithuania. The battle ended in a decisive Tatar victory for the Golden Horde.
^ abГумилев 2023, p. 286.
^Ivinskis Z. Lietuvos istorija iki Vytauto Didžiojo mirties. — Vilnius: Mokslas, 1991
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