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Kletsk, Battle of

Years: 1506 - 1506

The Battle of Kletsk is a battle fought on August 6, 1506 near Kletsk (now in Belarus), between the army of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, led by Court Marshall of Lithuania Michael Glinsky, and the army of the Crimean Khanate, led by Fetih I Giray and Burnaş I Giray, sons of the Khan of Crimea, Meñli I Giray.

The battle is one of the first and greatest Lithuanian victories over the Tatars.

“That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.”

― Aldous Huxley, in Collected Essays (1959)