The organizers of the January Uprising, which broke out in the Russian partition in 1863, tried to win the peasant masses over to the national cause. The Insurgent National Government had drawn conclusions from the people’s insignificant support for the November Uprising and from the tragic Galician Slaughter. In the absence of a regular army,… Continue reading The Golden Writ
The southernmost territories of the Commonwealth were inhabited by a large population of Zaporozhian Cossacks — a free folk whose legal status was partly regulated. In danger of being invaded by Crimean Tatars, they lived in constant military readiness, which made them excellent soldiers. The entire 16th century and the first half of the 17th… Continue reading Treaty of Hadiach
