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Lisowczyks or
Lisowczycy (Polish pronunciation: [lisɔfˈt͡ʂɨt͡sɨ]; also
known as Straceńcy ('lost men' or 'forlorn hope') or chorągiew
elearska (company...
-
Transylvanian army and the
joined loyalist Hungarian and
Polish forces of
Lisowczycy. It was the only
battle of that war to
involve the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth...
-
commander of a
mercenary group that
after his
death adopted the name "
Lisowczycy." His coat of arms was Jeż (Hedgehog). He came from a
moderately wealthy...
- and
about 7,500 soldiers. The
pillaging of his army,
especially of the
Lisowczycy mercenaries led by
Aleksander Lisowski,
contributed to the
placard in...
- its
operations in furs. The Polish-Lithuanian
irregular forces known as
Lisowczycy besieged the
wooden fort
during the Time of
Troubles (1613), but had to...
- and, in November, the
forces of
George Drugeth and
Polish mercenaries (
lisowczycy) won the
Battle of Humenné and
forced Bethlen to
leave Austria and Upper...
- (and
enforce his will) in the Kraków
Voivodeship (his
units defeated Lisowczycy after this
mercenary band
started pillaging Kraków
areas in the 1620s)...
- king,
Zygmunt III Waza, sent an
elite and
ruthless mercenary unit, the
Lisowczycy, to aid his
Habsburg allies. They
defeated the
Hungarian lord
George Rákóczi...
- King
Sigismund III Vasa sent an
elite and
ruthless mercenary unit, the
Lisowczycy, to aid his
Habsburg allies in Vienna,
since his brother-in-law was the...
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needed to join a
hussar unit, he
learned the art of war
serving with the
Lisowczycy mercenaries,
joining them as
towarzysz (companion, a
junior cavalry officer)...
