Polish forces under Jozef Oxinski clashed with troops (mostly Cossacks) of the Imperial Russian Army, commanded by Mayor Yakov Ogalin.
In early April 1863, Oxinski's unit stationed for a while at a folwark in the village of Kuzniczka, one kilometer from Praszka.
Polish insurgents were closely watched by the Russians, and Oxinski was well aware of it, so he decided to march northeast, closer to the Prussian border, to spend Easter there.
An insurgent patrol, sent out on 11 April, spotted a group of Cossacks, stationed in the village of Strojec.
A few days after the skirmish, bodies of 9 unnamed Poles were buried in a mass grave in Praszka.