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On July 22, 1616, Sahaidachny, together with 4 thousand Cossacks, arrived in the city. At night, the Cossacks landed on the shore and approached the gates of Kaffu. Some of the Cossacks, who spoke Turkish, distracted the guards by pointing out that they were a Turkish unit that was heading to war with Persia.
The history of the Cossacks spans several centuries. Early history ... was defeated in the spring of 1616. The raiders went on to capture Kaffa, ...
The Zaporozhian Cossacks, ... Zaporozhian Cossacks played an important role in the history of ... Thousands of slaves were freed in 1616 when the Cossacks under the ...
It's unknown whether Polish forces attempted to peruse Cossacks, but the main blow of Cossacks would've been aimed at Polish soldiers while Tatars were busy engaging Kalmyks. Polish forces would need time to recover from Cossack blow and Tatars would be too busy fighting Kalmyks, plundering convoys afterwards.
An American Cossack family in the 1950s Cossacks marching in Red Square at the 2015 Victory Day Parade. The Cossacks [a] are a predominantly East Slavic Eastern Christian people originating in the Pontic–Caspian steppe of eastern Ukraine and southern Russia.
Petro Konashevych-Sahaidachny (Ukrainian: Петро Конашевич-Сагайдачний; Polish: Piotr Konaszewicz-Sahajdaczny; born c. 1582 [2] – 20 April 1622) was a political and civic leader, who was a Hetman of Ukrainian Cossacks from 1616 to 1622. [2]
The capture of Azov by Cossacks severally undermined the ability of Crimean-Nogai Tatars to continue their raids. Merchants were coming to Azov and opened shops there. Garrison of the city consisted of 4,000 Don Cossacks and 700 Zaporozhian Cossacks during that time. [9] Tatars sporadically clashed with Cossacks over control of Azov.
[1] [2] This was described as Polish forces taking revenge on Cossacks, who broke their promise of peaceful capitulation to the Polish Bar garrison in 1648, executing Polish prisoners. [3] The news of the loss of Bar fortress to Polish forces infuriated Bohdan Khmelnytsky. This led to crueler treatment of Polish prisoners held by the Cossacks ...