The Battle of Orsha,
which took place in present-day Belarus on September 8, 1514, saw the defeat of the Muscovite army by the armies of the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania under the command of Volhynian prince Constantine Ostrozky. In order to trick the enemy into assaulting them, the combined force of Poles, Lithuanians, and Ruthenians (Ukrainians and Belarusians) crossed the Dnieper River. The Grand Duchy of Moscow's men fell for the ruse, and Ostrozky's artillery annihilated them. Six of the Muscovites' eleven military officers were captured by the allied army as they fled the battlefield in a state of panic.
The King of Poland and Lithuania even gave the Orthodox prince Constantine Ostrozky permission to build a number of Orthodox churches in Vilnius and in his hometown of Ostroh, Ukraine, to honour the victory. After this victory, he was hailed as the new Hannibal and was compared to Hannibal. Today, Constantine Ostrozky serves as the name of the 30th Mechanized Brigade of the Ukrainian Army.
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