Salvete Omnes,
a little jump in time to 1600-20s, horse-related drawings by a Dutch maestro Esaias van de Velde (1587-1630). - early XVII century cavalry, wagons, horse transport etc
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horse soldiers
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horse market
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Equestrian Polish, Eurasian and the Americas history and horsemanship - from Bronze Age to circa1939AD. Historical equestrian art, my own artwork; reconstructions, and some traditional art media and digital artwork-related topics. All rights reserved unless permitted by 'Dariusz caballeros' aka DarioTW, copyleft or fair use.
Salvete Omnes,
horse soldiers
horse market
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In 1867 American Army brevet general and actual colonel G.A. Custer, cavalryman and hero of the Civil War, started his Great Plains military service against the Plains Indian people, that would eventually lead to his death in battle in 1876.
This event - a buffalo hunting - took place during general Hancock's Southern Plains campaign in Kansas and Colorado in the Spring of 1867.
Custer, pursing fleeing Indians, decided to seek some bison or buffalo, as he had not hunted them yet, using his trusted army revolvers and his to hound dogs.
So here is his tale of his 1st hunt, in his own words (My Life on the Plains):
Salvete Omnes,
a new month and new challengers - farmers around the world unite while world needs more peace, no war and mayhem.
ad rem, my first posting of the month - the 'modern' cavalry of the late XVI century, when Western European lancers were giving way to the 'modern' firearms blazing reiter cavalry
part one - 'pistoliers' (reiter cavalry) and arquebusiers of the late XVI century
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| choc ilustracja Kielisinskiego jest z XIX wieku, to ploty wiejskie mogly byc czescia owych forteli wykorzystywanych przez broniacych sie Polakow |
Salvete Omnes,
this topic is closely related to the battle-siege of Khotyn and the great Polish-Ottoman war 1620-21AD, two years ago I published the Polish version of this article - so as the saying goes- better late than never I am 'publishing' the English version here today.
One of the heroes and and also one of the chroniclers of this war with the Ottoman sultan Osman II and his imperial army was Polish-Lithuanian cavalry rotomistrz/rotameister (captain) Jan Rudomina Dusiacki (1581-1648AD).
This Jan Rudomina, later a castellan of Nowogrodek (an ancient city of Belarus and GDL, now in Belarus), was a son of another Jan, a tribunus of Braslaw, who was admitted to the Radziwill coat of arms Traby by Grand Lithuanian Hetman Mikolaj Radziwill Rudy ( Red) in 1575AD.
Younger Jan Rudomina brought his winged hussar banner, in which his brother Jerzy and other citizens of property and means from the Grand Duchy of Lithuania served among this cavalry company.
The Rudomina banner, without their kopia lances, participated in the famous cavalry charge against the huge Ottoman attacking force of September 7, 1621AD. The Rudomina's winged hussar banner was combined within a ‘pulk’ or the crack mounted unit of 4 winged hussar companies, rapidly formed for this purpose under the leadership and orders of Grand Lithuanian hetman Jan Karol Chodkiewicz, against the Ottoman army attacks on the evening of that September 7.
In the course of the fighting, the Rudomina banner, fighting like reiter cavalry using pistols, broadswords and sabers, suffered significantly higher losses among the 4 banners in this engagement (described in the poetry of the era, in diaries, and eventually in modern historical studies, e.g. by researcher Radosław Sikora). Among the killed companions and retainers of Rudomina banner was Jerzy Rudomina, Jan's brother. Jan took the bodies of the fallen companions back to Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and he had his brother Jerzy buried in Vilnus, while the companions were buried in Nowogrodek.
Jan himself was wounded and wrote an epic diary of the Khotyn battle – published in print in 1640AD and nowadays available in digital form on the website of the Jagiellonian Digital Library.
In 1643, Rotmistrz Jan funded a cenotaph commemorating the valiant death of his brother and his 8 companions on that Khotyn battlefield on September 7. The cenotaph was installed inside the Transfiguration of Christ church in Nowogrodek.
Finally, on academia page of dr Katarzyna Kolendo-Korczak, you can read her article about the very cenotaph (in Polish) still located in the ToC church in Nowogrodek.
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