The term Deluge ( , ) denotes a series of mid-17th-century campaigns Military_operation in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth .

In a stricter sense , the term refers to the Swedish invasion Attack and occupation Control of the Commonwealth as a theatre of the Second Northern War Hostile_encounter ( 1655–1660 ) only ; In Poland and Lithuania this period is called Name_conferral the Swedish Deluge ( , ) , or less commonly the Russo–Swedish Deluge ( ) due to the Russian invasion Attack in 1654 .

In a stricter sense , the term refers to the Swedish invasion Attack and occupation Control of the Commonwealth as a theatre of the Second Northern War Hostile_encounter ( 1655–1660 ) only ; In Poland and Lithuania this period is called Name_conferral the Swedish Deluge ( , ) , or less commonly the Russo–Swedish Deluge ( ) due to the Russian invasion Attack in 1654 .

The term deluge Catastrophe ( or `` potop '' in Polish ) was popularized by Henryk Sienkiewicz in his novel `` The Deluge '' ( 1886 ) .

The rapid Swedish advance became Becoming known Know in Poland as the Swedish Deluge .

The Battle Hostile_encounter of Lubrze was a night battle Hostile_encounter which took place Process_start during the Deluge ( part of the Second Northern War Military_operation ) in August 1656 between Polish forces under voivode of Kalisz Andrzej Karol Grudziński and a Swedish-Brandenburg force under Jan Wejhard von Wrzesowicz .