Another banger guys! Thank you.

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Swedish viewer here. Great job on this video, indeed it was just an awful defeat, terrible waste of lives. Fun fact, the famous Swedish field marshal Lennart Torstensson was the nephew of the Anders Lennartsson shown in the video, however the uncle did not share his nephews excellent skills as a commander.

Hello! Cool videos! Please tell me how you make such a large and accurate map of Europe for video? Is it drawn in the program or is there a service where you can buy a map of Europe for your videos?

Pozdrowienia z Polski :)

Chad quote!

Chadkiewicz

It's easier to count corpses.

It was the Hetman response to a soldier who told him that the Swedes are to many to count.

That's just being stupid

And this chance was wasted only because king Sigismundus was so stupid. He few years later he did the same after PLC conquered Moscow. When Russians agreed to make his son prince Vladislav their tsar Sigismundus refused again because didnt want Vladislav to convert into orthodox christianity and was rather expecting Russians to become catholics.

@@rafalx1717 Duke Charles and the Swedish parliament shouldn’t have done things illegally either.

it would be proper force to beat the russia, but again size is not everything, administration is the key, and the poles did not manage that

Polish king was not the wisest of them all. Not by a long shot.

@@tomk3732 Polish king or King of Poland? There was only one Polish king - Jan III Sobieski, others were Lithuanians, Swedish, Hungarians, Ukrainians or Germans. And you are right Jan III Sobieski was great warrior but poor diplomat and administrator.

Wars between Sweden and Poland/Lithuania was the greatest mistake of that age, both powers bleeding out, giving rise to Empire of Russia.

@@Rodzyniastyyyy Like any other war started from religion conflict.

Russia meanwhile ...when 2 fight between them...winner is the third!

@@user-hb9mz2hp2g Bruh Swedish-commonwealth wars were not about religion.

Greetings from Poland :) I've heard recently that Swedish historical reenactors visit Poland. Reportedly they even wanted to reenact winged hussars themselves :D

Thank god they couldnt function otherwise i could be living in poland right now

No Polish involved in this particular battle.

@@TindaIPSC I think I know why you made such a statement, you get annoyed to see everybody around saying that it was a Polish victory when in fact it was Lithuanian. Please tell me if I am wrong. The truth is it wasn't only Polish victory but it wasn't also only Lithuanian. The army of Chodkiewicz was constructed by Lithuanians and by Poles. Some of the officers were Polish, for example, Tomasz Dabrowa who held command of the left-wing or Wincenty Wojna leading hussars directly under Chodkiewicz. The old lists also indicate that at least half of the hussars were Polish. To make the point I will say that you are wrong by saying "No Polish involved in this particular battle" and also people who say it was Polish are also wrong. Back then Poles and Lithuanians were much closer and friendlier to each other than it is today.

@@1963921 Back then Poles and Lithuanians were not the same people. "Lithuanian" could be a balt, a slav, a jew or even tatar at some point. The duchy was multiethnic, and the vast majority were slavs(old belorussians). I have no clue how there exist people in this world who won't even look for info and are cool with spreading misinformation.

It was not only this time, after Grunwald with such big win there was not political won.

What cavalry units would make that list as well?

Companion cavalry , knights Templar cavalry Cossacks , mongols . To name a few cavalry I respect the most . Not that one I have failed to mention are anything but quality in there own right .

@Dan Mitchell, don't forget the Numidian Calvary. It dominated for a long time

Numidian would be a good addition. While primitive when looking at the overall scope of cavalry, they really set a firm foundation with alot of victories.

Don't forget the Rohirrim😜

If both armies would have stayed in place.... It would have become an issue of who had more money, food and supplies.... But armies dont travel to battle just to stare at each other...

It was a heavy cavalry that moved like light cavalry. In addition, the Hussars took off in the fight against the infantry. One attack by 100 Hussars could kill 400/500 people. And there could have been several 2/4/6 attacks. As well as the number of Hussars could sometimes reach 1/2 thousand

Biased? maybe, wrong? No

I think the swan knights in lotr are the only comparable cav hahaah

This is what happens when nobles instead of paying for mercenaries to fight their wars, saddle a horse and do it themselves, paying for the equipment honing their skills training the hussar charge specified horses. You indeed resign before the battle because the enemy has a win ratio and K/D of MVP.

@@bentbanana8428 haha yes

A cry for help in time of need Await relief from Holy League

JAN SOBIESKY

We remember In September When the Winged Hussars arrived.

Comming down the mountain side!

​@@PolandTaltos beat me to it! 😂

Varangian Guard or the Normans might have something to say about that :) Look up the Normans if you want to laugh really hard at what making vikings christian and giving them horses ends up looking like. Good lord their conquest of Italy is comedy gold.

The only thing that annoys me about this name is the wings. Of course, the hussars had wings, but they were not attached to the back, but to the saddle. it was a single, short wing strapped to the saddle at the back. in the thumbnail we see a wrong image of a hussar, hussars began to mount wings to the back only at the end of the 18th century, they did not do that before.

@@theggman111 There were many hussars units across the Europe. In PLC, in Hungary or in Serbia. So to distinguish them, PLC hussars are called winged hussars due to that extraordinary wings. Another name is Polish Hussars but then it suggests that it was mainly Polish which is wrong because it was made by Poles, Lithuanians and Ruthenians.

@@Kuzyn Yea, but not all of the PLC hussars were using wings. These on the back of hussar were only in late 18th century. Before that they had only one wing from the back of the saddle, but not all of them were using wings, there were no purpouse in using them. Thats was calling them "winged hussars" is stupid, especially calling 18th century light cavalery hussars. In Polish we have more names for that, Serbian "hussars" are called "racowie" or "serbscy racowie" (serbian "hussars") Name "hussar" is from Hungary, in Poland that have Been called "usarz" but when they have come to Poland, somewhere in year 1500, we added "h" that's why we call them "husaria" , from the "usaria" from Hungarian name, and this light hungarian cav in 18th century is called "huzar" (Just like you read name hussar) . Calling everyone on them a "hussar" is not so accurate.

Winged hussars saved Vienna and probably rest Europe from the ottomans

Sounds like modern day problems.

Because the Polish-Lithuanian union had a system based on noble democracy, which cared only about its own interests and was subject to corruption - Poland's biggest mistake.

To be honest, Commonwealth in the first half of XVII century was functional and powerful state. Aside from dynastic struggle, Sigismund III was competent ruler. After wining the war with Muscovy and retaking Smolensk in 1634, Commonwealth reached his teritorial emphasis. Economy was growing, culture was strong. Good times. The state started to crumble after 1648, when attack from three sides (Sweden + Muscovy + Cossacs) in combination with major outbrake of bubonic plague happened.

Your supposition was not true. Keep in mind PLC was in very complex situation at that time. There were too many aggressive and strong enemies attacking PLC from all sides e.g. Ottoman Empire, Muscovy, Sweden, Crimea Tatars, rebel Cossacks, Transylvania, Prussia, Moldova, Wallachia, mutinied magnates, nobles and soldiers confederations. PLC few times was invaded from all sides, waged too many prolonged wars, had many internal conflicts, which divided society, drained finances, weakened forces and severely ruined country at that time. In such destructive conditions it is almost miracle that PLC survived that century. This was possible because PLC nobles continued to fight and liberated many occupied territories. Keep in mind PLC armies in huge part consisted of noble cavalry and commanders. Artillery, infantry and navy, where served also other classes, were not numerous. So, in fact nobles and their money saved PLC.

@@SurMikasMetin2PL It was put in place by King Sigismund II to prevent civil war after he died heirless. It probably would have been better in the long run to simply bite the bullet and undergo a succession war.

Klushino is already on the channel.

@@tomekdarda Ok thanks for info

@@jn1205 Bo Szwedzi w XVII w łupili sami nie będąc łupionymi. Ponadto nie maja przeklętego położenia geograficznego na Nizinie Europejskiej dzięki któremu nie ominęły nas (wbrew naszej woli) wszystkie najkrwawsze konflikty zbrojne XIX i XW w z obu wojnami światowymi plus okres księżycowej gospodarki realnego socjalizmu. W takiej sytuacji to nie sztuka być bogatym jak pokazała choćby Szwajcaria

@@jn1205 to pojedź do Szwecji i zobacz jakie są bogate w islam

@@suntherapist4863 służą im

Indeed, Kircholm is one of those battles that showcases the hussars

It's grand duchy of Lithuania army not crown of Poland. Only 200 polish soldiers were in the battle

@@MrElmas02 Doesn't really matter, they still fought for Commonwealth, not Grand Duchy of Lithuania

@@Pyotr1610 this what should be said, not Polands or Polish and Lithuanian commonwealth army

@@MrElmas02 I guess it's because of attitude of modern Poland and Lithuania towards Commonwealth's legacy. I had countless arguments with Lithuanians who claimed that their land was just occupied by Poles. They kind of forgot that most of Grand Duchy was modern Belarus and Ukraine lol

Poor food and some illness spreading on only one side?

the cannon would account for a whole lot I think, and those knocked senseless by repeated cavalry charges.

„We will count Swedes as soon as we defeat them” - and they did 😁

Perhaps surprisingly, this is a historical fact. I think that the king of Sweden disregarded Hetman Chodkiewicz, who had a lot of experience in fighting battles. In addition, he could not wait forever, because Sweden was not ready for such a war at the time. On the other hand, infantry coming under the heavy winged hussars? It must beg for misfortune. Big mistakes of King Charles.

The explanation is relatively simple. Winged Hussars with armour able to withstand poor musket fire that was inaccurate and limited. The Winged Hussars used Kopia(lances) that were 6+metres long whereas the Swedish infantry had pikes rarely longer than 3-4 metres so Polish Winged Hussars could impale the infantry front ranks, discard their Kopia, go back to supply wagons, grab another Kopia and charge again again impaling 1-2 or sometimes more infantry ranks repeating the process until the infantry was defeated and turned to run. The Winged Hussars would then simply go after then and cut them down with sabres etc As for Swedish cavalry(mainly Reiters) were useless against Winged Hussars as again after one shot the Hussars would impale them as the Swedes only had swords as defense. People forget the Winged Hussars horses were also specifically bred for battle and could turn quickly as well as gallop a long distance compared to the horses used by the Swedes. Once the ranks turned and fled it is not hard to understand the losses suffered by the Swedes and explains the low losses of the Commonwealth troops. The Commonwealth troops are charging towards an enemy with its back to them therefore no opportunity to damage the Commonwealth troops. The Winged Hussars once won a battle against Russians and Tatars where the Hussars were outnumbered 40 to 1 so being outnumbered 3 to 1 by the Swedes was not a difficult victory to undersdand. Once the Swedes lost the high ground advantage and the Hussars having that high ground advantage victory was a formality for the Commonwealth troops.

Thank you very much :)

I see that you are racist you write Swedish with capital letter and Polish without ...

Polish-Lithuanian* history. This guy was a Lithuanian serving under the Lithuanian part of the union.

@@LithuanianBear This guy was Lituanian, and serve under Lituanian part of the union for Swedish monarchy... Sounds 👍👍👍👍 So basically Swedes beats themselves in this battle, using Lituenians to reclaim charge in Sweden

@@pawepioro2998 What are even talking about ? Are you drunk ?

and only 200 of them were actual poles...

@@MrVafflis 🤣🤣🤣. They are all lovely Polish 🇵🇱 soldiers ❤. Godbless. Greetings from Leicester 🇬🇧. Take care.

Im from Lithuania, I love Poland! 🇱🇹🇵🇱

It is a bit oversimplified. We had many great politicians. Our victories wouldn't be possible without them (probably, some of our today's politicians will be remembered as good ones, too...). I suppose that the tragedy of Poland lies precisely in the source of its greatness: our culture is based on maximalist understanding of freedom. We created a state proclaiming liberties as uncompromised, as those of the later USA. But, unluckily, lying, not on a separate continent, but in the centre of Europe, between other powerful countries, not interested in such amount of liberty, but in efficiency, instead.

@@kacpersokoowski5208 "I suppose that the tragedy of Poland lies precisely in the source of its greatness: our culture is based on maximalist understanding of freedom." At a time when serfdom was the reality for the vast majority of the population of Poland?

@@hammarby1169 Don't believe in this Soviet communist anti-Polish propaganda 🙂. Poland's history is widely slandered (not only in the East but also in the West) because of its beauty and freedom. Serfdom was an honest deal between peasants and the noblemen. It was a form of payment for using land. When in the XVIII-th century peasants were given possibility to pay in cash, they all preferred to pay in work. As one nowadays libertarian politician has counted, today a Polish taxpayer works more days of unpaid labour than a XVII-th century serf.

​@@hammarby1169 You're picking on. We learn about Athenian democracy in schools, even though there were plenty of slaves and the women also had nothing to say. These were the times when only the nobility was the nation. And in Poland there were relatively many nobility, about 10% of the population.

Just like our current politicians

March from Poland, through Finland, to Stockholm? Do you even realize how terrible such a march would be, through scarcely populated Finland and northern Sweden? It would probably not be possible.. Even if, the battlefields wouldn't look anywhere near that of Kircholm; the Poles and Lithuanians, bringing with them their shock cavalry, would be forced to fight Swedish guerrilla-warfare in the vast amount of forests, and on the small roads, etc (this is not the Ukrainian steppe we're talking about here).. If starvation would not have killed them by then (going through Finland), Swedish peasants and soldiers would easily finish the job.

To nie była wypraw Polski, ale Zygmunta.

@@Leaffordes It is about sailing from Estonia to Finland and helping the Finns in the uprising against Sweden. Sailing across the Baltic Sea, we left the Finns to fend for themselves and their uprisings were suppressed.

​@@Gremo96 Why would Sigismund sail to Finland to start an uprising against Sweden, where he was the king? There was no Finnish "uprising against Sweden"; it was Charles who was the rebel and started an uprising against Sigismund, in Sweden. The main uprising which had recently occurred in Finland was that of the Finnish peasants, against Sigismund and his loyal supporters among the Finnish nobility. It was suppressed (see the Cudgel War), despite the "Finns [nobility]" being left to "fend for themselves" as you put it. When Sigismund set off for Sweden, the Finnish nobility had not been "suppressed" (a strange word, seeing as they were not the rebels); they landed a force in Sweden a week before Sigismund's arrival, but were soon forced to retreat. Had they and Sigismund coordinated their actions better, the attack might've turned out successful. It was only after Sigismund had been defeated, that Charles could turn his full attention to his enemies among the nobility in Finland.

There are several good ones allready here on UKposts

PLC had two biggest issues: no naval units and obsession about Swedish throne from Vasas. Whole Vasa dynasty used PLC as a tool to take over Swedish throne, which was impossible to do because PLC didn't have real naval force, only some mercenaries. How are you supposed to fight against the biggest naval force on the Baltic without ships? Also Sweden many times proposed to settle the dynastic issue and even join them in attack on German states, but Vasas always refused. And everything ended with Swedish Deluge which basically destroyed PLC economy.

Rather a beginning of an end. My dissertation from political philosophy degree was about polical thought in the country in that time. It turns out that the Polish-Lithuanian noblemen who at the beginning of the XVIIth century were old, educated, often in Italy etc. were very displeased in generation change that happened in the country, and called the young noblemen 'image-lickers'. Thing is, the old guys were very highly educated in political philosophy, ancient history, were taught to be open-minded, and the young ones were indoctrinated by counter-reformation action of the catholic church. 'Image-licker' was an insult suggesting that the young noblemen at the time had no knowledge and would pray to mere images and statues without understanding.

Much appreciated!

Indeed, we will be covering Swedish battles from that era in the coming months.

@@HistoryMarche funny that you say that just came across a replica docked at Lisbon Harbour of the Swedish East India Company called Goteborg of the 1700s and it has departed today. I'm sure we'll soon find out why it has a lion with a crown right at the front

Defragged History does awesome work on the 80 years war! I would definitely recommend checking out her page if you haven't already.

It probably refers to Gustavus Adolphus, @@RodolfoGaming; he was known as 'The Lion of the North'.

@@NobleKorhedron that's what the foreshadowing is about thanks for spoiling it 😂

Nieznana historia , a kogo to interesuje .Ty też nie znasz historii Rumuni, nie wspomnę o USA..

Nie znam ale dzięki takim kanałom mogę poznać historię Rumunii np. a historię USa akurat znam , o ci chodziło pisząc komentarz tej treści..?

@@gregoriannrex5351 dziękujesz za opowiadanie wycinka z historii Polski ,a wszyscy mają to gdzieś. W USA nawet nie ma takiego przedmiotu w szkołach, za dużo narodowości tam mieszka.

for anglo saxon area favourably forgotten. Your vision reach only to the Channel and colonies. The pivotal events in history of Europe took place here on the West and Central Europe

Imagine forgetting the French gendarmes

Concordo!!!

Meanwhile France casually dominating the fuck out of Spain during its golden age and forcing it to adopt very defensive formations because French heavy cavalry was no joke and everyone who could in Western Europe, tried to copy it.

@@nathanc939 Hahahaha, apparently you have no idea of military history, friend, and I think you are mistaken, because you are literally describing the English in the Hundred Years War. The genesis of the use of this type of pike formations were the Swiss pikemen and if you see their use in the war against Burgundy, you can see the offensive value they had (the Macedonian phalanxes were not defensive either), so nothing to do with what you say. The Spanish Coronelias and then the Tercios, were used in the same offensive way and with greater success than the Swiss, the French model was retrograde, that's why even they ended up adapting (and it cost them even Louis XIV), so of course it was a Joke, they were since the end of the Middle Ages, so much so that they needed the use of mercenaries in their armies, to compensate their cavalry with more modern infantry, which otherwise was worthless (The Italian Wars are an example of that). XD

@@IsaacRaiCastillo the Italian wars had the French heavily outnumbered and curb stomping everyone else when numbers were similar. At that point, France had the most modern army in Europe, due to the post 100 years war reforms. The Spanish Square was a direct answer to the French Gendarmes and its evolutions also were. France remained the dominant land power in Europe for the whole Middle Ages and then all the way until the Franco-Prussian war. It never really lost, except to coalitions of nations, which was most of its large wars. It is that simple.

Lithuanian*, It was equal parts union state, and this guy was a Lithuanian and leading a Lithuanian army. So its either a Polish-Lithuanian army, or Lithuanian army, but in no way is it Polish.

@@LithuanianBear wrong!!!! Hussars were Polish Units, Lithuania had only light cavalry

@@hussar843 doesn't matter. The origin of individual units and members of those units was multicuotural in both Poland and Lithuania. But the Military under whose command these units wete, was Lithuanian, led by Lithuanian Hetmons, funded by Lithuania.

@@hussar843 .. wrong, of course there ware also Lithuanian Hussars, whatever all formation belong to common Pl-Lth Commonwelth army

@@bafloski can you show some documents, I'm only asking for education purpose. I've never seen hussars with Lithuanian Banner, no offense :D...the fact is that we both fought together and kicked everyones @$$ hahahahaha

Working on Hannibal

so is better to use simple tool to check prenounciation this toll is called google translator :-)

Only the Lithuanian army participated in the battle. You will be interested in it, the Rzeczypospolitej (Rzeczpospolita Obojga Narodów) army was made up of separate Polish and Lithuanian armies. For example, the Lithuanian army did not participate in the Battle of Vienna. Thus, the Polish army did not participate in the battle of Kirchholm. I don't understand why Poles want to humiliate Lithuanians? Why do you appropriate our victories? The Russians treat us the same way. Are common Slavic roots to blame???

@Swedish and Nordic. And Sweden was conquered by the Finns? Let's just not distort the facts.

@Swedish and Nordic. Yeah you steal our history, change our ruler real names to your wierd wzdz names. Stealing history is not cool man. This whole video is discriminating against lithuania, Polish - Swedish war? Was lithuania not equal partner in commonwealth, even though it had more land, more power before union. I wish we never had union with so called brothers.

@Swedish and Nordic. will explain. It is a fact that Lithuanian and Swedish troops participated in the battle. Well, if it were written that Finns and Polish fought in that battle - that would be unpleasant. We Lithuanians are a small nation, but we have many victories and defeats. This is our story. I don't want our history to be falsified. An example. Now the Russians think that they are the strongest country in the world. Therefore, they are ashamed that they lost many battles to such a small nation as Lithuania. Therefore, they try to write "Poland" instead of Lithuania's name. They think that losing to Poland is not so shameful. And the Poles like it.

As well as all the wasted human effort and hundreds of thousands of hours we have put into destruction rather than improving the conditions we live in...

That's a good thing though. The next time a millionaire gets on TV to send people on a glorious and honorable war, you'll remember that all wars are holocausts against the poor, stupid, and young. May your very existence be a harbinger of peace!!

Fail. These videos have a single purpose and that purpose is to discover the oddly repressed but insuppressibly glorious history of the Poles.

thats because the world is ruled by men and not women... men always seek more and MORE lands and MOOORE power. Nothing is enough. And when it comes to their ego, they can actually start a war just because of an insult, because they have to defend their ego and fight for honor... its stupid coz so many people, whole generations lay dead on the battlefields for nothing...

We all die. Better to die fighting for something you believe in and be talked about 100s of years later than just be forgotten.

Lithuanian general'

Winged hussars are very expensive unit, there is no way the nobles wanted to fight with the king for free, thus that is why they always outnumbered

Szacun za generala Maczka

Polish-Lithuanian* or Lithuanian*, because this guy was a Lithuanian and he was leading the Lithuanian army which was opperated completely separately from the Polish one, they were completely separate entities.

@@LithuanianBear What ? Are you try to rewrite the history like Russians today ? It was Polish Commander , Polish army , Polish Victory.

@@matiwierzbicki1607 "Jan Karol Chodkiewicz was a military commander of the Grand Ducal Lithuanian Army, who was from 1601 Field Hetman of Lithuania, and from 1605 Grand Hetman of Lithuania. " he was born in Lithuania, educated in Lithuania, held Lithuanian Hetmon position and was Leading the Lithuania army. Do 1 min of googling

@@LithuanianBear No , he was Polish , yes he was born in Lithuania in Wilno. But " Chodkiewicz " is Polish name g was from Polish parents and study in Poland. He die in today Ukraine under Chodów. He was also titled by Polish king. Its possible that he is also one of Lituhuanian heroes but he was Polish by Blood. Anyway we should both be proud of him he was one of the Best European Generals ever from Rzeczpospolita also Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.

Yes, that's the problem. Our superiority has brought in a lot of controversy which always ends in multiple Empires, and or Military superpowers tagging up just to defeat us whether in 1939, 1700's, and or what.

​@@crt8355 Im pretty sure Russia defeated you on its own on multiple occasions. And the germans whooped you in 1939 and didnt need anyone else's help to take warsaw. So even if soviet union didnt get involved they wouldve still beaten Poland

Glad you enjoyed it

Many thanks!