By Richard Brzezinski
The seventeenth century Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was once virtually as different as sleek the USA. along Slavs lived Lithuanians and different Balts, Germans, Tatars, Armenian retailers, Jewish investors, or even a remarkably huge populations of Scots. This number of cultures had a powerful effect at the Polish military. in addition to the predominantly Polish and Lithuanian 'winged' hussars served a variety of foreigners from either inside of and out of doors the Commonwealth: Tatars and Cossacks, Wallachians, Transylvanians, Moldavians, Hungarians, Serbians and Albanians; and from the West, French, Italians, Dutch, Walloons, Swedes and Scots. Richard Brzezinski's significant other quantity to Men-at-Arms 184 completes his attention-grabbing exam of Polish armies from 1569-1696.
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