Battle of Lubrze
1656 CE.
Shown on the map at 52.095°, 17.389°.
The Battle of Lubrze was a night battle which took place during the Deluge (part of the Second Northern War) in August 1656 between Polish forces under voivode of Kalisz Andrzej Karol Grudziński and a Swedish-Brandenburg force under Jan Wejhard von Wrzesowicz. The Swedish-Brandenburg forces were coming to provide relief to the besieged town of Kalisz, invested by a Polish army under voivode of Malbork Jakub Wejher, brother of Ludwik Wejher. A small Polish force (between 200 and 500 men) surprised a weakly guarded Swedish-Brandenburg cavalry camp at Lubrze in Greater Poland, near Śrem and Środa Wielkopolska, and 47 km south-east of the voivodeship capital of Poznań. According to Pierre des Noyers who was a secretary to Her Majesty Polish Queen Marie Louise Gonzaga, in his letter dated September 17, 1656, Andrzej Karol Grudziński, commanding a host of 300 noblemen, was told by the local peasants about a small Swedish command of 200 men in the village of Lubrze. He decided to attack them at night, in a surprise nocturnal action. First, the Poles annihilated the 60 strong night guards and then attacked the remainder of the enemy's command.
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