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Scythemen, also
known as scythe-bearers is the term for
soldiers (often
peasants and townspeople)
armed with war scythes.
First appearing in the Kościuszko...
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Silesian Uprising in 1921. The
description of a
fighting unit as "
scythemen" was used in
Poland as late as 1939; however, the
Gdynia "kosynierzy"...
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Emilia Plater leading peasant scythemen during the 1831
Uprising against Russian Empire;
often nicknamed as a
Lithuanian Joan of Arc...
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personally leading an
infantry charge of
peasant volunteers (kosynierzy,
scythemen). Nonetheless, this
Russian defeat was not
strategically significant,...
- coat-of-arms. In Poland,
especially regions surrounding Kraków, the
memory of
Scythemen (Polish: Kosynierzy) of the 1794 Kościuszko
Uprising is
still vivid and...
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Emilia Plater leading peasant scythemen;
painted by Jan Rosen...
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Mokronowski from
Lithuania for a
total of 6,000
regulars and 10,000
scythemen, with 28 guns. For the Russians, the ****ault was successful, the Poles...
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Polish organisation was
founded called Towarzystwo Kosynierów (Society of
Scythemen).
Resistance activity of
Poles resulted in
reaction from Berlin, where...
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Emilia Plater leading scythemen 1831...
- a 500-man
Jewish regiment of
Berek Joselewicz as well as a
number of
scythemen (2,000 men) and civilians, plus 5,000
regular cavalry. The
total number...
