Salvete Omnes,
continuing with the battle of Warsaw Ad 1656
Polish National Library has a digitized set of prints showing the 3 day battle of Warsaw 1656.
Each print is titled separately - Beschreibung der Bataille, wie sie vor Warschau gestanden den 28/18 July Anno 1656, nachmittag: Welches wahr der Erste Tag [ Franckfurt au Mayn, Durch weyl. Matthai Merians seel. Erben 1663]
So on the eve of battle the Polish Commonwealth army concentrated at Warsaw's Right Bank by His Royal Majesty Jan II Kazimierz Waza (Vasa) (king of Crown of Poland and grand duke of Lithuanian realm and all the vassals) and his commanders was as follows:
Polish historians, based on primary sources, estimate that there were circa 40 thousand men in the Commonwealth camps. (Majewski, 2012)
---Polish Comput(regular) Crown army:
16,500-17,000 horse - Polish regular horse banners were divided into 17 so called 'pulk jazdy' commands.
the royal pulk - commanded by castellan of Kijow Czarniecki
the pulk of grand hetman Stanislaw Rewera Potocki
the pulk of field hetman Stanislaw Lanckoronski
the pulk of voivode of Sandomierz Aleksander Koniecpolski
the pulk of castellan of Sandomierz Stanislaw Witowski
the pulk of field scribe/notary (notarius campestris) Jan Sapieha
the pulk of vice-cupbearer Jan Zamoyski
the pulk of Crown guardian Aleksander Zamoyski
the pulk of Crown standard-bearer Jan Sobieski
the pulk of camp master - (praefectus currum or campestris) Andrzej Potocki
the pulk of Crown guardian (praefectus excubiarum seu vigiliarum) Mariusz Jaskolski
the pulk of prince Dimitr Wisniowiecki
the pulk of starost of Bohuslaw Jacek Szemberk
the pulk of starost of Braclaw Seweryn Mikolaj Kalinski
the pulk of Jerzy Balaban
Lubomirski division marched away, so these above listed 'pulks' had 137 banners or 14-15,000 horsemen of the so called national 'autorament.'
Plus the so called foreign autorament cavalry
The regiment of dragoon guard commanded by Jan Hernryk von Aten-Bockum and a squadron of royal reiters had 1070 horses.Several dragoon companies, 500-700 horses.
-- 4,500 portions of Crown infantry
Royal guard infantry commanded by major Wiljelm Butler - 963 portions
Major of artillery Krzysztof Grodzicki infatry regiment - 734 portions
Colonel Ernst Magnus Grotthauz - 997 portions
Voivode of Sandomierz Jan Zamoyski infatry regiment - 1168 portions
plus small various infantry companies of haiduk type infantry attached to the king and various Crown dignitaries.
---Ducal, Lithuanian, army was estimated to circa 5,000-7,500 men - actually commanded by the ducal field scribe Aleksander Hilary Polubinski. - this division included two winged hussar banners (royal one and Lithuanian grand hetman Sapieha's one), plus another winged hussar banner within prince Michal Kazimierz Radziwill sub-command. More Lithuanian units were away from the battle .i,e., Gosiewski division and Lithuanian grand hetman Sapieha division.
The National Crown levy was estimated at 10,000-13,000 men, representing noblemen from the following voivodeships; Masovina, Greater Poland, Sieradz, Leczyca, some from Sandomierz, Lubin, Podlaskie, Ruskie, Wolynskie and Belzkie.
Crimean Tatar contingent commanded by Ghazi-aga- 2,000 (2-3 horses per a Tatar warrior ) up to 6,000*
'Holota' -volunteer peasant and servants bands - several thousand men (and presumably women, as many of them were massacred in their camps by the Swedes and Prussians during the retreat of the Polish army on the third day of battle)
*it is nopted that the Crimean and Nogai Tatars and Ottoman Turks counted both men and horses (and camels & mules) when giving the numbers of their army strength.
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