Poland

The Armies Holy Roman Empire and Poland were anachronisms late 17th century

Armies Germany Poland 6 Min Read

Imperial defenders Vienna, 1683 In southern Slavic languages, husar was a mounted knight. Polish hussaria (‘winged horsemen’) dominated Central and Eastern Europe battlefields throughout the century and were central to the relief of Vienna, 1683. Until the mid-17th century, while the core of all Polish armies continued to be noble heavy cavalry and units of hussars. From the early 16th…

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Polish Air Forces in France

At the outbreak of war, British, Polish and French delegates met at the French Air Ministry, Paris (25.10.39) to discuss how to utilize the Polish armed services personnel now available. General Sikorski had become the new commander in chief and was highly respected by the PAF. The Poles wanted to…

Operations Poland 19 Min Read

Operation Burza -1944

Polish Home Army’s 26th Infantry Regiment en route from the Kielce-Radom area to Warsaw in an attempt to join the Warsaw Uprising. Bor-Komorowski issued the orders for the launch of Operation Burza, and later described how they were put into practice: Partisan groups were assembled into larger units and directed…

Germany Poland Russia Wars 9 Min Read

The War of the Polish Succession 1733-5

Soldiers of the War of the Polish Succession The array of rival powers took on a more familiar appearance in the 1730S, when the Bourbon powers of France and Spain stood once more shoulder-to-shoulder against Habsburg Austria. The cause of the quarrel was the support which the French gave to…

Battle Poland Soviet 22 Min Read

Soviet advance on Warsaw I

Facing defeat, Pilsudski halts Trotsky’s Russian steamroller at the gates of Warsaw and wins a momentous victory The Soviet advance on Warsaw in August 1920 and Poland’s dramatic 10-day counter-offensive (16-25 August) which completely turned the tables. The Curzon Line was Britain’s definition of the Polish frontier in a telegram…

Battle Cossack Poland Soviet 16 Min Read

Soviet advance on Warsaw II

The panic of the 13th had also brought forward the day for starting the great encircling sweep from the Wieprz. Pilsudski had left the capital to take charge of the Strike Force on the 12th. He was horrified at the state of his men’s equipment. He described the men of…

Poland Warship 2 Min Read

Polnocny-class ships

The Polnocny (or Polnochny)-class ships are amphibious warfare vessels. They were designed in Poland, in cooperation with the Soviet Navy and were built in Poland between 1967 and 2002. They now serve in several different navies, and some have been converted to civilian use. The name comes from the Stocznia…

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Poland Early 18th Century – The Reign of Anarchy II

Polish army throughout the 18th century, by Karol Linder. Sweden had been wiped out as…

Poland Early 18th Century – The Reign of Anarchy I

Augustus II of Poland. 17th Centruy Polish Dragoons By the last quarter of the seventeenth…

Danzig 1939

Soldiers of the SS-Heimwehr Danzig round up “undesirables” in the free city of Danzig. The…

The Battle of Tannenberg 1410 Part I

Background Two conflicts formed the bookends, so to say, of the fourteenth century in Prussia.…