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This is a List of wars between the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and Sweden.Broadly construed, the term refers to a series of wars between 1562 and 1814. More narrowly, it refers to particular wars between 1600 and 1629.
The Polish–Swedish War (1600–1611) was a continuation of struggle between Sweden and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth over control of Livonia and Estonia, as well as the dispute over the Swedish throne between Charles IX of Sweden and Sigismund III of Poland. After skirmishes, sieges and battles often aborted by Jan Karol Chodkiewicz, a ...
The Polish–Swedish War of 1626–1629 was the fourth stage (after 1600–1611, 1617–1618, and 1620–1625) in a series of conflicts between Sweden and Poland fought in the 17th century. It began in 1626 and ended four years later with the Truce of Altmark and later at Stuhmsdorf with the Treaty of Stuhmsdorf .
The Polish king John II Casimir left Warsaw the same month to confront the Swedish army in the west, but after some skirmishes with the Swedish vanguard retreated southwards to Kraków. [15] On 8 September Charles X Gustav occupied Warsaw, then turned south to confront the retreating Polish king.
Polish–Swedish union. Poland; Sweden; Swedish separatists Separatist victory, Polish-Swedish Union dissolved Polish–Swedish War (1600–1629) (1600–1629) [67] Location: Baltic Sea, Prussia, Latvia, Poland. Sweden: Poland (Poland-Lithuania) Holy Roman Empire (1626–1629) Truce of Altmark, Livonia ceded to Sweden De la Gardie campaign ...
The Poles caught the Swedish force, which had been reinforced with nobility from Harrien, by surprise; Hans Boije was captured and the nobility suffered heavy casualties. [1] On August 27, 1568, Polish ships, stopping in the Pomeranian Darłowo for food and water, they unexpectedly came across three Swedish ships standing in the port.
The Polish–Swedish War (1600–1629) was thrice interrupted by periods of truce and thus can be divided into: Polish–Swedish War (1600–1611)
The Deluge was a series of mid-17th-century military campaigns in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.In a wider sense, it applies to the period between the Khmelnytsky Uprising of 1648 and the Truce of Andrusovo in 1667, comprising the Polish theatres of the Russo-Polish and Second Northern Wars. [6]