Siege of Jasna Góra

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Siege of Jasna Góra (also known less accurately as the Battle of Cz stochowa, Polish: Obl enie Jasnej Góry) took place in the winter of 1655 during the Second Northern War / The Deluge as Swedish invasion of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth is known. The Swedes were attempting to capture the Jasna Góra monastery in Cz stochowa. Their month-long siege however, was ineffective, as a small force consisting of monks from the Jasna Gora monastery led by their Prior and supported by local volunteers, mostly from the szlachta (Polish nobility), fought off the numerically superior Germans (who were hired by Sweden), saved their sacred icon, the Black Madonna of Cz stochowa and, according to some accounts, turned the course of the war.