Salvete Omnes,
November 11 is one of the most important days in the calendar of holidays and anniversaries in my Polish-American year.
Polish 3rd Republic celebrates her Independence Day ( commemorating the restitution of the modern Polish state in 1918). Vivat Polonia.
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| 11th Uhlan Regiment in 1930 |
Nota bene probably the largest parade took place in Warsaw, where the many hundreds of thousands of Polish patriots led by the president Nawrocki finished the annual Independence Day March there.
Veterans Day in America- all the best to all veterans of US Armed Forces.
Polish-Lithuanian armies defeated the Ottoman-Turkish army at the fortress of Khotyn (then a border stronghold within the Turkish vassal of Moldavia, now in Ukraine, thanks to Stalin).
Crown Grand Hetman Jan Sobieski, Janina coat of arms, won one of the greatest victories in his life.
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| Saint Martin at the Khotyn battle, Jan Sobieski and his army in the background |
Returning to America - on this day the Iroquois - Seneca & Mohawks - in alliance with the British Crown forces and American Loyalists under Walter Butler attacked the American rebel settlement of Cherry Valley capturing it (Western New York during the American Revolution). The mayhem and massacre carried by the Iroquois followed.
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| Joseph Brant |
Bellow there are some pages from a 1901 publication - Old New York Frontier, by F.W. Halsey
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The following year of 1779 the American side - so called the Sullivan expedition- carried the invasion of Iroquoia destroying the Iroquois villages, orchards and the whole productivity of that country.
During the war of 1812 on this day at the Crysler's Farm the American invading Northern Army under gen, Wilkinson suffered a defeat from the hands of in Upper Canada (Quebec) British forces aided by the local native warriors. Local Candian light dragoons distinguished themselves against the American army. During the battle US Light Dragoon commanded by John Baptiste de Barth Walbach distinguished themselves by charging several times the British side in order to save the American canons, which they did but suffered casualties and eventually had to withdraw.
This defeat, and the October defeat at the battle of the Chateauguay, caused the dispirited American command to abandon the drive on Montreal and thus the so called Saint Lawrence Campaign was called off. Wilkinson withdrew the army to Plattsburg on Lake Champlain.
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