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"Necessity dictates we fight here, hope lies in our valour, safety lies in victory!". As Field Crown Hetman Stanisław Żółkiewski spoke these words, his winged hussars, exhausted by a night march, were forming up to face mighty Russo-Swedish army. Explore the story…
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Polish Military History — from the Piast dynasty to September 1939 and the underground resistance
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On July 15, 1410, the might of the Teutonic Order lay in ruins. At Grunwald, the combined Polish-Lithuanian forces crushed…
The first months of Operation Barbarossa, i.e. the Third Reich's invasion of the USSR, were a devastating defeat for the…
Before the recently described Battle of Trafalgar, where the British fleet defeated the French invasion fleet, an equally important naval…
Under the cryptonym "Wikinger" stands the unsuccessful action of the German navy against British fishermen, during which 2 destroyers were…
Throughout the history of combat, there are only a few examples of military formations that were as effective as the…
The Panzerkampfwagen Tiger Ausf. B "Königstiger", known as the Tiger II, was the largest, heaviest, and arguably the most powerful…
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