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Augustus II Friedrich Wettin

History Poland Prussia Russia 5 Min Read

August II Grand-Duke of Saxony and King of Poland shaking hands with the King of Prussia in 1728. By 1756, friendship between the two nations was history. – Source: de Silvestre, Dresden, Wikipedia In 1674, after a divided election, one of the best Polish military commanders, Jan Sobieski, was elevated to the throne. He rebuilt the army, signed a treaty…

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Poland Warship 7 Min Read

Orzel: Pride of Poland

The Escape – September 1939 Orzel was surrounded by Estonian gunboats and armed guards boarded her and confiscated charts. Next day, breech mechanisms were dismantled from the guns, ammunition unloaded and 14 torpedoes removed. Further unloading, on 17 September, of torpedoes from the after tubes proved to be impossible because…

Battle Poland Russia 10 Min Read

Battle of Orsha, 8 September 1514

Unknown painter under influence of Lucas Cranach the Elder, known as “The Master of the Battle of Orsha” The Battle of Orsha took place September 8, 1514, between the forces of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and Kingdom of Poland (less than 30,000 troops), under the command of Hetman Konstanty…

Artillery Poland 5 Min Read

2nd Artillery Group, 2nd Polish Corps

Poles of the 2nd Artillery Group, 2nd Polish Corps, man a heavy artillery piece bombarding German positions. No one was keener to liberate their homeland than the Poles. 2nd Artillery Group: 9th,10th,11th,12th and 13th heavy artillery regiments (pulk artylerii ciezkiej) General Wladislaw Sikorski, the head of the Polish Government in…

Cossack Fortification Poland 2 Min Read

Berezhany Castle

In 1534, a Polish military commander and politician named MikoĹ‚aj Sieniawski decided to build a massive fortress near Berezhany, western Ukraine. Sieniawski wanted to create a place that was impenetrable, so he selected a patch of marshy land that was located on a small island near the ZĹ‚ota Lipa River.…

History Ottoman Personnel Poland 6 Min Read

POLAND AT WAR, 1617-1667

The great distances of Poland and its relatively low density of population led to a greater emphasis on cavalry than in western Europe. The Poles had to confront opponents with very different tactics and did so with some success. Although Warsaw fell to the Swedes in August 1655 and to…

History Poland Soviet 12 Min Read

The Red Army invades Poland

German soldiers greet a Red Army tank crew near Brest-Litovsk. On 17 September, as the XIX Corps secured Brest-Litovsk, the Soviet army invaded Poland. This action came as a complete surprise, not only to the Poles but to the German army, which had been kept in the dark over the…

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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.…