The Battle of Brest (Russian: Битва под Брестом; Polish: Bitwa pod Brześciem) was defensive battle of 5,000 Polish-Lithuanian troops tried to cover the way to Warsaw from the Russians. An equally strong Russian detachment was acting against them. On July 21, a dragoon raid took place on Polish-Lithuanian positions in front of the city, the Polish-Lithuanian forces retreated into the city itself. On July 23, a battle took place at dawn, the defenders held out for a long time, but after they ran out of ammunition they were forced to retreat. Poles were led by Szymon Zabiełło; they lost 356 killed and 66 captured, while the Russians under Ivan Yevstafyevich Fersen lost only 12 dead and 43 wounded.
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=== Bibliography === Военные конфликты, кампании и боевые действия русских войск 860–1914: Битва под Брестом [Military conflicts, campaigns and military actions of Russian troops 860-1914: The Battle of Brest] Runivers Хронологический указатель военных действий русской армии и флота [Chronological index of military operations of the Russian army and Navy] Volume 1: 1695–1800 Mała Encyklopedia Wojskowa. — I. — Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Ministerstwa Obrony Narodowej, 1967. — Т. 2. Malishevsky, Nikolai (2012). Польша против Российской империи: история противостояния [Poland against the Russian Empire: the history of confrontation] (in Russian). Minsk: Букмастер. ISBN 978-985-549-247-5.
