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- Lisowczycy abstract "Lisowczycy (Polish pronunciation: [lisɔfˈt͡ʂɨt͡sɨ]; also known as Straceńcy ('lost men' or 'forlorn hope') or chorągiew elearska (company of elears); or in singular form: Lisowczyk or elear) – the name of an early 17th-century irregular unit of the Crown Kingdom of Poland and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth light cavalry. The Lisowczycy took part in many battles across Europe and the historical accounts of the period characterized them as extremely agile, warlike, and bloodthirsty. Their numbers varied with time, from a few hundreds to several thousands.The origin of the group can be traced to konfederacja (a form of semi-legal mutiny of royal forces, practiced in the Kingdom of Poland and then in the Commonwealth), organized around 1604 by Aleksander Józef Lisowski. They began to grow in strength and fame a few years later, when Lisowski's irregulars were incorporated into the forces fighting in Muscovy. The Lisowczycy unit of Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth cavalry received no formal wages; instead, they were allowed to loot and plunder as they pleased. They relied on their speed and fought without tabors, foraging supplies from lands they moved through. The Lisowczycy were feared and despised by civilians wherever they passed and they gained dubious fame for the scores of atrocities they carried out (pillage, rape, murder and other outrages). However, they were also grudgingly respected by their opponents for their military skills. They did not hesitate to plunder even their homeland, where they sacked the Racovian Academy university of the Polish brethren. Such actions were among of the reasons the Commonwealth ruler Sigismund III Vasa tried to keep them away from the Commonwealth for as long as possible.The Lisowczycy took part in many conflicts, including the Dymitriads (where their actions help explain the text of the infamous placard in Zagorsk: three plagues: typhus, Tatars, and Poles) and in the Battle of White Mountain (where they were essential in lifting the Transylvanian siege of Vienna and Bohemia's defeat). They were eventually disbanded in 1635.An account of Lisowczycy's exploits was written by their chaplain, Wojciech Dembołęcki (or Wojciech Debolecki), in Przewagi Elearów polskich co ich niegdy Lisowczykami zwano (1619–1623) (Deeds of Polish Elears once known as Lisowczycy (1619–1623)).".
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- Lisowczycy wikiPageLength "16956".
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- Lisowczycy wikiPageRevisionID "707378638".
- Lisowczycy wikiPageWikiLink Absolute_monarchy.
- Lisowczycy wikiPageWikiLink Aleksander_Józef_Lisowski.
- Lisowczycy wikiPageWikiLink Aleksander_Kleczkowski.
- Lisowczycy wikiPageWikiLink Allies_(disambiguation).
- Lisowczycy wikiPageWikiLink Arkhangelsk.
- Lisowczycy wikiPageWikiLink Banditry.
- Lisowczycy wikiPageWikiLink Barbarian.
- Lisowczycy wikiPageWikiLink Battle_of_Cecora_(1620).
- Lisowczycy wikiPageWikiLink Battle_of_Guzów.
- Lisowczycy wikiPageWikiLink Battle_of_Humenné.
- Lisowczycy wikiPageWikiLink Battle_of_Khotyn_(1621).
- Lisowczycy wikiPageWikiLink Battle_of_Krems.
- Lisowczycy wikiPageWikiLink Battle_of_White_Mountain.
- Lisowczycy wikiPageWikiLink Battle_of_Zavada.
- Lisowczycy wikiPageWikiLink Belozersk.
- Lisowczycy wikiPageWikiLink Bely,_Tver_Oblast.
- Lisowczycy wikiPageWikiLink Belyov.
- Lisowczycy wikiPageWikiLink Blockade.
- Lisowczycy wikiPageWikiLink Bohemia.
- Lisowczycy wikiPageWikiLink Bolkhov.
- Lisowczycy wikiPageWikiLink Bryansk.
- Lisowczycy wikiPageWikiLink Buddharupa.
- Lisowczycy wikiPageWikiLink Category:Guerrilla_organizations.
- Lisowczycy wikiPageWikiLink Category:History_of_Belarus_(1569–1795).
- Lisowczycy wikiPageWikiLink Category:History_of_Lithuania_(1569–1795).
- Lisowczycy wikiPageWikiLink Category:History_of_Poland_(1569–1795).
- Lisowczycy wikiPageWikiLink Category:Mercenaries.
- Lisowczycy wikiPageWikiLink Category:Polish_cavalry.
- Lisowczycy wikiPageWikiLink Catholic_Church.
- Lisowczycy wikiPageWikiLink Chaplain.
- Lisowczycy wikiPageWikiLink Chekalin.
- Lisowczycy wikiPageWikiLink Chorągiew_(military_unit).
- Lisowczycy wikiPageWikiLink Confederation_(Poland).
- Lisowczycy wikiPageWikiLink Crown_of_the_Kingdom_of_Poland.
- Lisowczycy wikiPageWikiLink Dmitry_Pozharsky.
- Lisowczycy wikiPageWikiLink Don_Cossacks.
- Lisowczycy wikiPageWikiLink Eastern_Orthodox_Church.
- Lisowczycy wikiPageWikiLink Elear.
- Lisowczycy wikiPageWikiLink False_Dmitry_II.
- Lisowczycy wikiPageWikiLink Ferdinand_II,_Holy_Roman_Emperor.
- Lisowczycy wikiPageWikiLink Flag.
- Lisowczycy wikiPageWikiLink Forlorn_hope.
- Lisowczycy wikiPageWikiLink Four_Horsemen_of_the_Apocalypse.
- Lisowczycy wikiPageWikiLink George_I_Rákóczi.
- Lisowczycy wikiPageWikiLink Golden_Woman.
- Lisowczycy wikiPageWikiLink Grand_Duchy_of_Moscow.
- Lisowczycy wikiPageWikiLink Hetman.
- Lisowczycy wikiPageWikiLink Holy_Roman_Empire.
- Lisowczycy wikiPageWikiLink Ingrian_War.
- Lisowczycy wikiPageWikiLink Ivan_Andreyevich_Khovansky.
- Lisowczycy wikiPageWikiLink Jan_Karol_Chodkiewicz.
- Lisowczycy wikiPageWikiLink Jan_Piotr_Sapieha.
- Lisowczycy wikiPageWikiLink Jarosz_Kleczkowski.
- Lisowczycy wikiPageWikiLink Kaluga.
- Lisowczycy wikiPageWikiLink Kara_Sea.
- Lisowczycy wikiPageWikiLink Karachev.
- Lisowczycy wikiPageWikiLink Karelia.
- Lisowczycy wikiPageWikiLink Kargopol.
- Lisowczycy wikiPageWikiLink Kashin_(town).
- Lisowczycy wikiPageWikiLink Kaunas.
- Lisowczycy wikiPageWikiLink Kholmogory,_Arkhangelsk_Oblast.
- Lisowczycy wikiPageWikiLink Kirillo-Belozersky_Monastery.
- Lisowczycy wikiPageWikiLink Kirillov_(town).
- Lisowczycy wikiPageWikiLink Knyaz.
- Lisowczycy wikiPageWikiLink Kolomna.
- Lisowczycy wikiPageWikiLink Kostroma.
- Lisowczycy wikiPageWikiLink Kursk.
- Lisowczycy wikiPageWikiLink Laager.
- Lisowczycy wikiPageWikiLink Light_cavalry.
- Lisowczycy wikiPageWikiLink Livonia.
- Lisowczycy wikiPageWikiLink Magnate.
- Lisowczycy wikiPageWikiLink Maximilian_I,_Elector_of_Bavaria.
- Lisowczycy wikiPageWikiLink Mercenary.
- Lisowczycy wikiPageWikiLink Miedźwiedzi_Bród.
- Lisowczycy wikiPageWikiLink Mikhaylov,_Ryazan_Oblast.
- Lisowczycy wikiPageWikiLink Moldavian_Magnate_Wars.
- Lisowczycy wikiPageWikiLink Moscow_Kremlin.
- Lisowczycy wikiPageWikiLink Muslim.
- Lisowczycy wikiPageWikiLink Nikolo-Korelsky_Monastery.
- Lisowczycy wikiPageWikiLink Northern_Dvina_River.
- Lisowczycy wikiPageWikiLink Ob_River.
- Lisowczycy wikiPageWikiLink Offices_in_the_Polish–Lithuanian_Commonwealth.
- Lisowczycy wikiPageWikiLink Onega_River.
- Lisowczycy wikiPageWikiLink Ottoman_Empire.
- Lisowczycy wikiPageWikiLink Peremyshl,_Russia.
- Lisowczycy wikiPageWikiLink Persona_non_grata.
- Lisowczycy wikiPageWikiLink Poles.
- Lisowczycy wikiPageWikiLink Polish_Brethren.
- Lisowczycy wikiPageWikiLink Polish–Lithuanian_Commonwealth.
- Lisowczycy wikiPageWikiLink Polish–Muscovite_War_(1605–18).
- Lisowczycy wikiPageWikiLink Polish–Swedish_wars.
- Lisowczycy wikiPageWikiLink Pretender.
- Lisowczycy wikiPageWikiLink Protestantism.