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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; 25.600
Result	Polish-Lithuanian victory

Belligerents

Sweden

Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth

Commanders and leaders

Jan Zamoyski
Stanisław Żółkiewski

Jürgen von Farensbach †

Strength

800

5,000

v t e Polish–Swedish War of 1600–1611
Karksi Limbaži Wenden Ērgļi 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 25 March 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]

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