[1] The trenches were intended to block communication of the Ottoman garrison of Kamianets-Podilskyi, located 23 kilometers away, with Moldavia, from where convoys of supplies for Kamianets set out.

The fortress of the Holy Trinity Trenches lost its military significance after the Treaty of Karlowitz (1699), as a result of which the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth regained Kamianets-Podilskyi.

[2] In 1664, General Marcin Kazimierz Kątski erected a fortress on his estate according to a design by French architect Guillaume Le Vasseur de Beauplan.

[5] It was conceived and founded by the Great Hetman of the Crown Stanislaw Jan Jablonowski,[3] who drew John III Sobieski's attention to the convenient location for its construction, where the Zbruch flows into the Dniester.

[8] In September 1693, Kalinowski's was replaced for a time by Chomentowski, an ensign of the armored flag of the Halych cup-bearer, and from October 1693 by Konstanty Zahorowski, a Novgorod stolnik, regimental of the JKM.