The siege of Zbarazh (Ukrainian: Облога Збаража, Битва під Збаражем, Polish: Oblężenie Zbaraża, Bitwa pod Zbarażem; 10 July — 22 August, 1649) was fought...
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one of the settings of Henryk Sienkiewicz's novel With Fire and Sword (1884) in which he gives a detailed description of the famous Siege of Zbarazh. Notable...
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Jan Skrzetuski (category Characters in novels of the 19th century)
friend of Michał Wołodyjowski. Jan Skrzetuski is partly based on a historical character, Mikołaj Skrzetuski, the Polish hero of the Siege of Zbarazh. In...
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historic ones. The movie, as the book, culminates with the savage siege of Zbarazh. Izabella Scorupco as Helena Kurcewiczówna Michał Żebrowski as Jan...
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Siege of Prague (1648) – Thirty Years' War Siege of Inverness (1649) Siege of Zbarazh (1649) – Khmelnytsky uprising Siege of Dublin (1649) Siege of Drogheda...
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Ivan Bohun (category Colonels of the Cossack Hetmanate)
a new military campaign against the Tsardom of Russia. During the retreat after the disastrous Siege of Hlukhiv Bohun was executed by a firing squad...
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Zbarazh Castle (Ukrainian: Збаразький замок, romanized: Zbarazkyi zamok; Polish: Zamek w Zbarażu) is a fortified defense stronghold in Zbarazh, built during...
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Gulyay-gorod (category Military history of Russia)
this type of fortification extensively, as for example by Bohdan Khmelnytsky during the siege of Zbarazh in 1649. With the proliferation of field artillery...
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is a chronological list of wars in which Poland or its predecessor states of took an active part, extending from the reign of Mieszko I (960–992) to the...
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Jeremi Wiśniowiecki (category Military personnel of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth)
even offered him the official command (which he refused). During the siege of Zbarazh, Wiśniowiecki was thus not the official commander (role was taken by...
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