The clashes involved a detachment of the Russian army of Ivan Weymarn [ru] led by Alexander Vasilyevich Suvorov and Polish force with other European troops under the command of the French envoy Charles François Dumouriez.

[3] Alexander Suvorov had already fought the Confederates in a substantial battle the year before last — he gave a heavy defeat to Casimir Pulaski at Orzechowo.

It was impossible for Dumouriez to bring the Eperies' agitators to an agreement, and he resorted to the Countess Mniszchowa, a woman of intelligence, learning, dexterity, and cunning, who enjoyed great influence among the Confederates.

: 18 January 1771[k]), attacked on all points by overwhelming forces, the Russian detachments in Kraków Voivodeship were pushed back across the Vistula with heavy losses, and the whole nearby lands passed into Confederate hands.

It is easy to imagine how hard it was for Suvorov to confess this after a few days, writing the following lines to Weymarn:[3] The Lanckorona incident depended on Suzdal's men, who are not at all like they were when I was with them.

Then Suvorov made two assaults on the Tyniec redoubt, containing a palisade, three rows of trous de loup, and fortified with two cannon, but both times was knocked out of it.

As much as it was against Suvorov's rules to start an endeavor and leave it unfinished, he realized that this would be the lesser evil; he held back from further attacks and reached Lanckorona under the fire of the Confederates lined up on the heights.

A Polish formation of around 3,500 men including French volunteers and recruited Austro-Prussian deserters with 2 cannons was attacked by 3,500 Russians commanded again by general Alexander Suvorov.

[3] Looking over the position, Suvorov ordered Chuguyev Cossacks of the vanguard and a squadron of carabiniers, forming the left flank of the Russian corps, to attack the center of the enemy, without waiting for the other forces to approach.

The Cossacks rushed at the Confederates in a scattering, not disturbed by the fire of chasseurs à pied, who were ordered to be silent by Dumouriez, confident in victory and fearing only one thing—that Suvorov would not postpone his allegedly reckless attack.

[3] The Cossacks, having climbed the heights, immediately rode down and rushed to the center and the right flank, where the troops of Sapieha [pl] and Lithuanians of Orzeszko were; carabineers galloped after them.

Meanwhile the Russian infantry (Saint Petersburg & Astrakhan regiments[8]) with the rest of the cavalry approached, knocked out the French chasseurs à pied from the central grove and climbed the heights.

Everything then rushed into disarray; only Walewski [pl], who occupied the left flank of the position, and Dumouriez with a small detachment of the French retreated in order.

[13] In the last, third fight, the loss of the Russians was negligible and was produced by shots fired from the castle during the pursuit,[3] while the Confederates lost 500 men killed and 200 prisoners of war.