Salvete Omnes,
precisely yesterday but in AD 1610 Polish Crown grand hetman Stanislaw Zolkiewski leading a small but chosen army defeated the Muscovite army near the village of Klushino.
It was a grand victory... and led to some momentous changes in Eastern Europe.
Today I was looking at the Wiki Commons- Sigismund III Vasa gallery and became pleasantly surprised to 'discover' this image - attributed to Monogrammist ASL and showing our king victorious with Smolensk in the background.
this well known print (made after the lost Tommaso Dolabella painting) :
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some details from the drawing:
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| winged hussar |
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| Old Polish Kozak cavalry |
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| winged hussars banner |
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| Rotameister or a captain of Polish hajduk infantry or a field commander ordering infantry to action [I 'mirrored' the detail from the original drawing ] |
Valete
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