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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]
Soon afterwards, however, the residents of Krosno turned against the Swedes, who looted, plundered, murdered people and burned houses. Organized by Colonel Gabriel Wojniłłowicz, they renounced their pledge and attacked the Swedish garrison, together with their Polish allies. The surprised Swedes lost the battle, and the Poles recaptured the town.
The second book, The Deluge, describes the subsequent Swedish invasion of Poland, now known as the Deluge. The final novel, Fire in the Steppe (Polish title: Pan Wołodyjowski, lit. Sir Wołodyjowski), follows wars between Poland and the Ottoman Empire in the late 17th century.
Jerzy Michał Wołodyjowski (Polish: [ˈjɛʐɨ ˈmixaw vɔwɔdɨˈjɔfskʲi]) is a fictional Polish hero in Henryk Sienkiewicz's Trilogy: With Fire and Sword, The Deluge and Pan Wołodyjowski. Michał Wołodyjowski is partly based on the historic figure, Colonel Jerzy Wołodyjowski [ pl ] , a Polish noble of the Korczak clan .
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and balances” in a bureaucratic turf war. Our teachers failed to explain to us that the power that the Founders restrained in each branch of government is not abstract: it is the power to strip you and me of personal liberty. So I needed to go back and read, more deeply than I had the first time around,histories of how patriots gave us our ...
The Deluge (Polish: Potop) is a historical novel by the Polish author Henryk Sienkiewicz, published in 1886. It is the second volume of a three-volume series known to Poles as " The Trilogy ," having been preceded by With Fire and Sword ( Ogniem i mieczem , 1884) and followed by Fire in the Steppe ( Pan Wołodyjowski , 1888).
Damian Wojnilowicz, 36, was arrested for allegedly breaking into the woman’s home in Monmouthshire in July this year. The burglar was accused of hanging out the victim’s laundry, opening up ...