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@HistoryMarche one remark. those territories became "russian-speaking" only after been occupied by muscovites. do not spread russian propaganda about "collecting lost russian lands", thanks!
It's not "Russian army". Rus (Kyiv, Volyn)+Lithuania/partly Polish support - defeated Muscovites. And there were heavy knights mostly, not hussars. The major force of the Rus-Lithuanian army was Volyn knightshood of Duke and Hetman Konstantine Ostrožski. Westerners are so freaking clueless, damn.
He ordered his cavalry to cross an entire battle front , through arrow fire, to attack a group on the opposite side of his deployment. A Total War move if ever i've seen one!
Those were hussars in their plate armor, those arrows did very little to them. That armor could withstand direct hit from musket. I've read once in the old history book, printed in 1863 an account of one hussar been hit directly in front of his armor with musket bullet, the bullet bounced off killing his horse, but he went unscathed. And about Polish casualties, only comrades were counted, not the pleb's soldiers and it's very probable that only 500 were killed. Like in Battle of Kirholm where 3000 Poles clashed with 12000 Swedes, Poles got 100 dead and 200 wounded, Swedes lost circa 5000-8000 men and almost got their king killed.
Never thought that I would ever see a documentary about this battle on a major UA-cam history channel, I got to admit, I have almost teared up. A big thank you from a Belarusian here.
@@batorybogdan3310 I understand that very well. But you have to give "HistoryMarche" a credit. If you live in English speaking country you know that very often they have problem with English language as well. Example: the word "Glacier" is pronounced three different ways. Not to mention historical and scientific terms. In one video the same narrator pronounced the word "Denisovan" two different ways. Nobody gives a doo doo about my real name (it's different). They twist it so bad it's atrocious. And I don't care. But when you deal with one of the hardest languages you can find it's different story. BTW. That's why Polish is way more descriptive than English. To me they did really good job.
Except for the Mongols no country had bullied Russia more than Poland. Russia had to group up with the west and destabilize Poland politically to stand up. Even in the 20th Century they were unable to do it on their own.
Most Americas have no idea what happened in Europe beyond what the English did, Napoleon and the World Wars. The Western European cannot comprehend the scale of these ancient wars. Hastings isn’t even a skirmish compared to large, pitched battles on the continent.
@@NoahBodze70k men, in pike and shot formations, was roughly the size of major encounters during the thirty-years war, a century later. - Here, however, the armies were mostly comprised of horsemen, making the scale of the battle all the more impressive.
@@Badbentham See? You have no concept of it. Just the Mongol invasions - not the huns, Avars, Bulgars, Ottomans, Vandals, Goths, Visigoths, Ostrogoths - dwarf your understanding of any of this. There are battles your anglo-centric mind have never heard of that are larger than anything your sheltered people have seen and you're too incurious to look it up.
An interesting fact: one of the engineers who made a significant contribution to the construction of bridges was named Jan Baszta, he came from a small town of Żywiec.
@@ThePawcios For facilitating this crossing, the king rewarded him with a privilege of December 22, 1514, exempting him from duty levied on the Vistula on rafts with wood.
The polish Lithuanian commander took a page out of Alexander’s playbook at the battle of the Hydaspes. A well executed deceptive maneuver to cross the river.
Tactic knowladge of Comonwealth comanders was really impressive. Special in maneuver, logistic wich was use in attacks or making traps as a "wagenburg"
The PLC commander's operational maneuver was excellent. I think the Russian commander handled the battle on tactical level excellently. the way he pried apart the PLC position with maneuver was well conducted. The PLC commander also handled things very well on a tactical level. the Shifting of the heavy cav to the right was crucial in saving the PLC army. the fight back once the Russians started giving ground was also very well done. ultimately it came down to the PLC's troops stubborn resolve but it easily could have gone the other way.
@abdoulo7737 for a while, but by the time the Russians attacked in the center, the PLC force without reserve, understandably so. It was really just down to sheer grit that the Center didn't break
@@notsoeloquent familiarize yourself with the full name of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. The full name was as follows: Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Rus (that's what the lands of modern Ukraine were called, it has nothing to do with modern Russians) and Zhemantiy. Therefore, if we talk about percentages, in the Commonwealth of Nations, Polish lands accounted for about 45-50%, Ukrainian 35-40%, and then all the rest.
@@villiamkost5095 we already know all that. Therefore, PLC is not just Polish history by definition, but history of Poland, Lithuania, Belarus and Ukraine.
They ALL spoke polish. Poles gave them culture, language, influences and with time became united on every issue. Todays Lithuania, belarus, Ukraine have nothing to do wtih the glorious past really... Just the Stalins creations. Face the truth! @@notsoeloquent
Perfect video for me today! :D Currently playing Poland in a boardgame of Europa Universalis! Its been rough but I've vassalized Lithuania, annexed Prussia and smashed a Swedish occupation of Livonia! 💪😎💪
I forgot to add, the Battle of Kircholm 1605 deserves similar attention, it is also the "away performances" of the Polish hussars. This battle is, by the way, still taught at West Point today as the art of battle tactics "The descendants of the century will be more surprised at this victory than they will believe it" - Jakub Sobieski, father of Jan III Sobieski, later the king of Poland, victor of Vienna in 1683.
Battle of Kircholm is an absolute classic! It teaches you how the small force can almost obliterate huge, entire army. I said almost, because the opposite force was broken, but not finished. There was no glory in that. That was left to pleb's peasants, who finished off the rest of the Swedes!
@@kestutissamogitian1899 He meant that and west Russians. There were also Scots, Dutch, Czech, Hungarian, Germanic tribes and who knows who else. They were in mostly of support for Hussars, although playing important role as well!
What a masterfully played battle given the conditions! Crossing river, ruse, man disadvantage, long march toward enemy position, enemy choose ground but was still surprised. Minimal losses. Perfect result. Decisive victiory.
@@SuperPubas to be fair not all modern day Lithuania is Lithuania proper, Northern Belarus was also historically Litwa (Lida, Ashmiany, Navahradak and so on) and Zemaity is in modern day Lithuania. But to even talk about GDL in a context of nations that came to life after partitions is kinda stupid. We still don't know for sure who Mindoug was ethnically, still don't know where his first capital was etc. It's our common history
Its worth noting that at this time the Polish and Lithuanian hussars were light cavalry, only being converted to heavy after the reforms of Stefan Batory in the 1570's. At this time the heavy cavalry were lancers largely indistinguishable from French Gendarmes and the like (the real difference being less companies used armoured horses and so called Gothic armour remained popular for longer).
@@PaulDuchy "Meanwhile, Sigismund the Old gathered some 35,000 troops, most of whom (57%) were Poles,[7] for war with his eastern neighbor. His army was inferior in numbers, but consisted mostly of well-trained cavalry."
My Polish ancestors were Winged Hussars at Vienna 1683. My father has one of their szabla (saber). I reenact a WH. The thing to remember is their Kopia's ( lances) were 14-18 feet long. Way longer than pikeman's pike. Hussars were armed with 3 swords, 2 pistols, war hammer or axe, dagger, and some even had bows. When the kopias broke. They would transition to the Koncerz. Which is a long 4 edged straight thrusting sword. The last sword was the Palasz. This was a 5 lbs hacking broadsword. These 2 weapons were in scabbards running along the side of the saddle, under the legs of the hussars. These 3 weapons were to enable the hussar to fight his way back through the enemy line to reack his retainer with replacement kopias. They were armed to the teeth. Their armor was proof tested against firearms. They wore a predatory animal pelt (cheetah, tiger etc) to unnerve opposing cavalry horses. Even the pennant at the end of the kopia was to distract the opposing horse.
The distances in the Eastern Europe are nothing comparable to these in the West. Too infantry heavy army in Eastern European Theater up till late 1700s would be simply outmaneouvered and starved to death by scortched earth tactics.
I got the same feeling about this. One of my own think why was that is eastern frontier of Polish Lithuanian Commonwelth was lack of rocks and others rescources to build much more castles and towns with walls in compare to west and south-west side.
@@Gogson4 brick castles can be built without stone. And in the age of gunpowder combined wood and earth fortifications were just as good as a stone wall, if not better.
Regarding many comments and video description: this was NOT a battle of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Back then, Poland and Lithuania were two independent states under one king/Grand Duke(Sigismund I the Old at the time of battle). PLC was formally brought to life by his son Sigismund II Augustus in 1569. It's like calling England under Henry VIII the UK.
@@arturceberek555 formally, only Poland was a kingdom. Yes, Lithuania was ruled by a king since the time of Jagiellon dynasty(courtesy of them being kings of Poland), but a formal title of a ruler of Lithuania was Grand Duke. It remained even in a full formal title of rulers of Commonwealth (King of Poland, Grand Duke of Lithuania etc etc).
At that time Kingdom of Poland and Grand Duchy of Lithuania were not connected by personal but DYNASTIC union. GDoL had a right to elect its own Grand Duke who not necessarily was a king of Poland.
bullshit. military , political and economic integration was on the run fot 1oo years. Lithuania would never able to wage any war without the crown army.full union took place about 50 years later
I know that many already asked you BUT when you think you can do the rest of Hannibal's story? You've done such a detailed work, with so many infos (obviously there is nothing left out) that pulled me from ep.1 and cant wait for more. Ofc, we must say that war is horrible thing... Learning about so many bloody battles, with tens of thousands dying on a single day, makes you realize the dread nature of humans! I study war history in general and im really shocked on how much evil humans are capable of, either out of personal ego, greed, hollow ambition, etc.
HM I wasn’t as big on your style as say kings and generals early on but after a couple years of watching the content you make, I’ve come to favor your stuff over the rest.
Maps in the kings and general battles are often inaccurate and battles are simplified. Instead of the units being shown as fleeing they are fully magically destroyed...
I personally from the start liked HistoryMarche the best because as you say they give way more detailed info, tempo is slower and more immersive and you can appreciate all parts of the battle. BazBattles is second best to me, too bad they post videos very rarely as of late.
Nice to see a video on a battle from the Muscovite-Lithuanian Wars. They really don't get much attention. Wouldn't mind seeing more documentaries on them. Say for example the Battle of Vedrosha, 1500
@@pawelchmielewski1 I'd say it was fought by the Commonwealth. Even if it wasn't Commonwealth. Polish crown is another ''discussion''. But yeah, they are known as Muscovite-Lithuanian Wars. Whatever. Wikipedia states, _''The Battle of Orsha ... was a battle fought on 8 September 1514, between the allied forces of the _*_Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland, under the command of Lithuanian_*_ Grand Hetman Konstanty Ostrogski ... The Battle of Orsha was part of a long series of _*_Muscovite-Lithuanian Wars_*_ conducted by Muscovite rulers striving to gather all the former Kievan Rus' lands under their rule.''_
@@pawelchmielewski1 Bitwa pod Orszą była częścią wojny litewsko-moskiewskiej. Nie było jeszcze Unii Lubelskiej. Polska włączyła się do tej wojny, ale w tej bitwie siły litewskie liczebnie zdecydowanie dominowały a głównodowodzącym był hetman wielki litewski. Po Unii Lubelskiej nadal istniały dwie osobne armie, ale wtedy koordynowały swoje działania, choć zdarzały się animozje między dowódcami polskimi i litewskimi.
Suggestion: something that might help is flashing some art near the start of each episode so we have an idea how each side was equipped. I only have a vague idea what "Polish light cavalry" would mean for this period. Nothing fancy as Osprey color plates, but anything to give a accurate visual idea of how each side was equipped.
In general, it would be nice if they at least tried to give some detail about the respective army compositions. Otherwise, the battle becomes very abstract for everyone who is not familiar with the military history of a given region.
Good point. There is a Renaissance painting brilliantly illustrating the battle, known as the "Battle of Orsha". The painting was created shortly after the battle according to the school of Lucas Cranach and today is in the collection of the National Museum in Warsaw, but its large reproductions can be found on the web. It is very possible that the artist (Hans Krell?) was present in the battle himself - the picture has the true value of a reporter's account, full of details! Tactics, appearance, weapons, course of events, etc. are precisely and realistically depicted.
Impressive! Great animation, awesome voice. As for the text&sentences structure, all hats off! Again, quite a pleasure on all levels, thanks a lot! Such quality keeps me humble&curious.
Fun fact: in this period the hussar formations just started to appear in the Polish-Lithuanian armies, looked quite different from their future iconic "winged" selfs, and were light cavalry; playing supporting role to the main shock force of that time - the heavy lancers in full plate (including horse armor). Also, these early hussars had shields. Look up the painting Battle of Orsha for reference.
You made so many videos about Polish military history, which I am grateful of. But did you plan to make a series about the beginning of Kingdom of Poland? Great struggle between Mieszko I and Bolesław the Brave against German Emperors?
@@sobolzeev No ..Muskovites were wooped like little bitches xD ...Tatars win if they ...win only by enormous unit advantage.... besides they attack like Vikings ...cowardly on unguarded villages town ..mostly killing civilians if Poles have Castles equipment and numbers .... they totally rape any enemy they have in front of them. Swedes have even an contract that if Hussars enter the battle they have a right to fled from field :)
@@sobolzeev Well, if you call border raids a success then yeah, sure. But many years had to pass after Orsha for Muscovy and Tatars to win an actual war against PLC. Even then it had to be weakened i.e. during Swedish "Deluge". Power balance fluctuated.
@MrSagaTeller Loss of Smolensk and Seversk lands, as well as Pleskov and Novgorod, can be well counted as such a success. Loss of Polotsk in 1563 was a brink of catastrophe for Lita, and required scales of Stefan Bathory reforms. You may consider it still profitable for the Crown, which encroached Rus lands south of Pripec River in 1569. However, it was the inner policy on these lands that sparkled the civil war which have ruined the PLC.
Opis bitwy poznałem z książki Dzieje oręża polskiego, Warszawa 1968. Ta staroć zawiera też kilka czarno białych fotografii obrazów olejnych. Ciekawe, nigdy nie próbowałem odnaleźć reprodukcji lepszej jakości...
@@teraz.tak.jutro.inaczej Faktycznie trudno nie było słyszeć o bitwie, która zatrzymała Moskiewską ekspansję na kilkadziesiąt lat. Ale pierwszy raz widziałem jej przebieg.
Opis przebiegu bitwy mam dostępny z książki powyżej. Są tam także zamieszczone schematy sytuacyjne przebiegu bitwy. Wszystko jest mniej więcej zgodne z tym co zamieścili tutaj autorzy. Większy rozbieżności nie znalazłem. Ale przeczytać, zobaczyć mapki, a zobaczyć animację to nie to samo. Autorzy wykonali tutaj kawał dobrej roboty. Thanks HistoryMarche. Napiszę to jeszcze raz otwartym tekstem, wystarczy wpisać w wyszukiwarkę, zakładka grafika "bitwa pod orszą obraz" aby wyszukać obraz olejny z początku XVI w. Autorstwo nieznane, ale sami zobaczcie.
"Ruthenia" is an exoethnonym used to designate the inhabitants of the occupied territories in western Rus'. Fortunately, justice prevailed and they were able to unite with their brothers in the northeast, who called themselves Russians in the Byzantine manner. Since then, exonym "ruthenia" has sunk into oblivion as a dark and powerless past.
@@Shab_Kom different languages, different cultures. There were no Russians. Peter decided to take this Greek name for Moskovia. And habitants of Rus aren’t Russians they are Rusyns. Later in 19 century when all nations appears they were rebrended to Ukrainians because centre of wide moving to south-east from original Rus lands (Kyiv, Pereyaslav and Chernihiv).
@@dimadubnevych9164 You are pointlessly ignoring thesis of my comment. I won't repeat myself. Although I did not argue with the fact that Rusyns are also an endo-ethnonym. Look at your first comment: "It is great that you differentiate Ruthenian and Russian people". This is complete nonsense, read the Wikipedia articles about the Eastern Slavs, and especially about the exonym “ruthenia”, endoethnonyms: “Russians”, “Rusyns”.
@@Shab_Kom But they are simply not. Because Russians has never ever named Rusyns neither by themselves neither by their neighbors. And Rusysns have never ever called Russians. Russian is an adjective. In slav language it is not they way ethnic groups are named. Rus, Wes, Muroma, Lytva (noun of female ). And single person is ended with yn. Rusyn, Mordvyn, Lytvyn etc. Russian has never been Rusyns. Further more even those who are named Rusyns like Ukrainian and Transcarpathian Rusyns are considered to be different nations. And in general all this staff around Rus is a littble bit artificial because Rus was simply a conglomeration of different slav and finn tribes united by normans and trade route. And it collapsed when the main source of it power (trading with Byzantiya) were interrupted by Crusaders who destroyed Constantinopol.
@@cya3mdirl158 Ukranians have joke about this "artificiality" of their nation. "Austrians tried to imagine ukranian language so hard, that they forgot to imagine Austrian"
@@Velkan1396 There was never such a thing as "winged hussars". Such a term literally doesn't exist in Poland. Hussars were always just that... hussars. No adjectives are needed.
@@Velkan1396 No such terms were used historically. In Old Polish military history, unit names are usually umbrella terms and a great deal of variety between individual banners or even members of a single banner is implied. What you are trying to describe could be referred to as "Early Hussars". Although such a description isn't perfect either as even in the early stages you can occasionally stumble on hussar banners being armored head to toe and using barded horses. Three such banners were recruited in 1530. And even among more lightly armoured banners there were soldiers wearing armour, particularly the officers. So I guess the preferable way would be to judge banners on an individual basis. Also what you are trying to describe as "winged hussars" isn't an apt description as hussars weren't uniform at the later time either. Their equipment still varied depending on the time frame, campaign, and the type of enemy. Such flexibility in terms of equipment was required because of the wide variety of enemies the PLC had to deal with. Everything from Western-style armies to steppe hordes.
@@kamilszadkowski8864 It doesn't Matter if "Winged Hussars" wasn't used historically, it's still useful to differentiate the kind of hussar of later in the century and the kind of hussar that fought at Orsha. The debate on how to name the hussars over their 500+ years of History can be had elswhere. So save your condescendig remarks about what Im "trying" to do for some other time.
The claim of 500 dead is not unrealistic considering that Hussars themselves have lost 4% of their forces in their worst cases. The loses in horses though, were sometimes reaching even 50%.
What about a playlist with Polish and Lithuanian wars with Russia/Sweden/Turkey etc? Currently we see the Central Europe emerge as a significant player, which if everything goes right, could be understood as the rebirth of the Commonwealth but in different political system(s). A playlist like that would, ekhm, refer to nowadays challenges let's say.
HIstoryMarche, there are videos I can't wait to watch such as: Rise of Augustus Caesar (Part 6) Prince Eugene of Savoy (episode 3) Basil II, the Bulgar slayer (part 2) First War of Scottish Independence, (Part 4) Third Samnite War (Part 3) Hannibal, Second Punic War (Part 19)
Kinda ironic to think that it's 510 years ago and Russia is still stuck at the Dnipro River in Ukraine. Ukraine needs some Polish Hussars to break the deadlock...
As others have said, the Hussars at the time were light cavalry, nothing alike the later winged hussars. The thumbnail could be quite missleading imo, I would replace it. It's also interesting to point out that according to Tomas Baranauskas, the infantry on the polish side were the (or most of the) bohemian mercenaries, some 3000 men, both light and heavy. There's a very nice painting of the battle that depicts equipment that could have been used by both infantry and cavalry, even if it dates around 1530-35, the style of the arms and armor looks the part.
But our heavy cavalry was the most armored at that time, just look at the pictures from the era, I recommend the battle of Orsha. The hussars under the command of Radziwil were then light cavalry
According to Webster's the word hussar stems from the Hungarian huszár, which in turn originates from the Serbian хусар (Husar, or гусар, Gusar) meaning pirate, from the Medieval Latin cursarius (cf. the English word corsair).[19] A variant of this theory is offered by Byzantinist scholars, who argue the term originated in Roman military practice, and the cursarii (singular cursarius).[20] Through Byzantine Army operations in the Balkans in the 10th and 11th centuries when Chosarioi/Chonsarioi were recruited with especially Serbs,[21] the word was subsequently reintroduced to Western European military practice after its original usage had been lost with the collapse of Rome in the west.[22] The hussars reportedly originated in bands of mostly Serbian warriors [23] crossing into Kingdom of Hungary after the Ottoman invasion of medieval Serbian state at the end of the 14th century. The Governor of Hungary, Hunyadi János - John Hunyadi, created mounted units inspired by his enemy the Ottoman Turks. His son, Hunyadi Mátyás Matthias Corvinus, later king of Hungary, is unanimously accepted as the creator of these troops. Initially they fought in small bands, but were reorganised into larger, trained, formations during the reign of King Matthias Corvinus.[24][25] Initially the first units of Polish hussars in the Kingdom of Poland were formed in 1500, which consisted of Serbian mercenaries.[26]
5:32 Shame you didn't show Dvina and Dnieper rivers to better visualize the importance of Smoleńsk and the Smoleńsk Gate. The land bridge of Smoleńsk Gate between Dvina nad Dnepr would be self-explanatory
Yes they make many times, against the mongol, against the ottoman together with the Hungarian. Europe had forgotten this? Big shame. Even the Big USA can be thankful about that. But they don't understand. Not even how theyr "country " was made. Who did make where you are today? I know, don't answer ( Europeans have make your country) and you still need them!!!
Russia is no less: 1237, 1480, many wars against ottomans, 1812, 1945 But do other Europeans remember this? In any case, their propaganda wants the opposite.
Classical battle from the Renaissance. The winning strategy was to confront the enemy army with the right armored, weapened and operating soldiers. Russian light cavalry attack on the right was countered by heavy cavalry, Russian light cavalry attack on the left was defended effective with pike and guns. The Russian centre was advancing too slow and late, surrounded and butchered. The account of the 500 death Poles seems right (without wounded).
Even though in comparison to other who has greater graphics than your channel many find including me your channel more easy to understand while other channels almost very confusing since thier map and sometimes presentation isnt straight to the battle that's what makes you unique HM u still have the KISS principle Keep It Simple Stupid which is a navy term when designing thier planes and also require to focus more the quality than the looks so Thank you HM for this easy to understand videos 🥰.
Polish Hussars were the Elite of Army at that time, so I wouldn't question the 1:26 loss ratio. This battle could resemble, for example, a clash between US Marines and Iraqis during a Desert Storm operation ...
This is far from a horde bum rush. Watch it again and look to see how the Russian commander carefully pried apart the enemy battle line with maneuver while maintaining a large body for a knock out charge, though it obviously didn't go the Russian's way in the end sometime it doesn't in war even when you do everything right.
A certain expert on China was asked to comment on current events and possible involvement of China in the conflict in Ukraine. He said that Russia is a Boyar culture and China is a Confucian culture. Bayar culture is that I go up against a wall and bang my head against it, so either the wall will crack or I'll blow my head off. Confucian culture, on the other hand, is that kinetic warfare itself is essentially a failure of the strategist. This is the difference:)
It does. Just look at WW2. Some russian soldiers didnt even have guns, just ammunition (they were said to take guns from dead soldiers) and yet they have beaten greatly organised, well trained and well equipped german army. Maybe in the medieval this was right but wehn guns replaced swords, it became mostly about how many guns can fire at the enemy.
Great video, I just really need to put in my 5cents here though lol Regarding how you name the armies as (sometimes) russian, Polish and Lithuanian. Here's how it's written in the Lithuanian (now it's Belarusian) chronicles: Отрывок из Хроніки літоўская і жамойцкая» апісвае бітву пад Воршай:... "и была война великая, бо москвы было пятькрот болш, ниж поляков, руси и литвы." Translate: And there was a big battle, since the moscovites had a five time bigger army than Polish, Rus and Lithuanian (army)." By "Rus" the chronicler is referring to Ukrainians, not russians. The word russia or the country russia didn't exist until Peter l renamed tsardom of moscovy to legitimize their claim of inheriting the ancient Kyivan Rus. We see these claims being made to this day. That's why it's important to be historically accurate.
Cope, hoholsky. There was never such thing as uraine in history. Your poor little okrayna was always part of Russia and never had a state up until the Russian revolution.
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@HistoryMarche one remark.
those territories became "russian-speaking" only after been occupied by muscovites.
do not spread russian propaganda about "collecting lost russian lands", thanks!
edit for you : Battle of Vrša (official Belarusian Latinka ) , 1514 ⚔ Muscovite army bested by the stubborn Hussars ⚔ DOCUMENTARY
PLEASE MENIN AND POZARSKI 😎
It's not "Russian army".
Rus (Kyiv, Volyn)+Lithuania/partly Polish support - defeated Muscovites.
And there were heavy knights mostly, not hussars.
The major force of the Rus-Lithuanian army was Volyn knightshood of Duke and Hetman Konstantine Ostrožski.
Westerners are so freaking clueless, damn.
He ordered his cavalry to cross an entire battle front , through arrow fire, to attack a group on the opposite side of his deployment.
A Total War move if ever i've seen one!
Arrow fire???
I think that's called the "left flank shuttle"
@@the_bottle_imp You know what he meant you troglodyte
@@the_bottle_imp Russians were using flame arrows
Those were hussars in their plate armor, those arrows did very little to them. That armor could withstand direct hit from musket. I've read once in the old history book, printed in 1863 an account of one hussar been hit directly in front of his armor with musket bullet, the bullet bounced off killing his horse, but he went unscathed. And about Polish casualties, only comrades were counted, not the pleb's soldiers and it's very probable that only 500 were killed. Like in Battle of Kirholm where 3000 Poles clashed with 12000 Swedes, Poles got 100 dead and 200 wounded, Swedes lost circa 5000-8000 men and almost got their king killed.
Never thought that I would ever see a documentary about this battle on a major UA-cam history channel, I got to admit, I have almost teared up. A big thank you from a Belarusian here.
Ukrainian is here as well)
Greetings from Poland Bro
@@ruslandukhnovskiy5694 Bulgarian as well
Litvin lines up
The Commonwealth will rise again, folks!
Extremely interesting as always. And congratulate you a beautiful pronunciation of difficult Slavic names. Very rare.
to hear how it's actually pronounced - Orsha - you need to hear Poles
@@batorybogdan3310 I understand that very well. But you have to give "HistoryMarche" a credit. If you live in English speaking country you know that very often they have problem with English language as well. Example: the word "Glacier" is pronounced three different ways. Not to mention historical and scientific terms. In one video the same narrator pronounced the word "Denisovan" two different ways.
Nobody gives a doo doo about my real name (it's different). They twist it so bad it's atrocious. And I don't care. But when you deal with one of the hardest languages you can find it's different story. BTW. That's why Polish is way more descriptive than English.
To me they did really good job.
But when comes to the Magyar's names, the level will become more deadly 💀
@@khaiophirgrad7717 You are absolutely right. Polish language is just one of the hardest but there are much harder than that.
@@stanpski5442 I not think Polish is hard
No wonder why Putin mentioned Poland more times than US in the interview with Tucker.
Except for the Mongols no country had bullied Russia more than Poland. Russia had to group up with the west and destabilize Poland politically to stand up. Even in the 20th Century they were unable to do it on their own.
Most Americas have no idea what happened in Europe beyond what the English did, Napoleon and the World Wars.
The Western European cannot comprehend the scale of these ancient wars. Hastings isn’t even a skirmish compared to large, pitched battles on the continent.
@@NoahBodze70k men, in pike and shot formations, was roughly the size of major encounters during the thirty-years war, a century later. - Here, however, the armies were mostly comprised of horsemen, making the scale of the battle all the more impressive.
Haha true 😂
@@Badbentham See? You have no concept of it. Just the Mongol invasions - not the huns, Avars, Bulgars, Ottomans, Vandals, Goths, Visigoths, Ostrogoths - dwarf your understanding of any of this.
There are battles your anglo-centric mind have never heard of that are larger than anything your sheltered people have seen and you're too incurious to look it up.
An interesting fact: one of the engineers who made a significant contribution to the construction of bridges was named Jan Baszta, he came from a small town of Żywiec.
Good to know! Thanks, I am personally from Zywiec... I had no idea
@@ThePawcios Pozdrawiam krajana ;)
@@ThePawcios For facilitating this crossing, the king rewarded him with a privilege of December 22, 1514, exempting him from duty levied on the Vistula on rafts with wood.
Ten co ten most spieprzył 😉
@@johndalton3781 nieee on go właśnie naprawił :D
The history videos you make are amazing. So so much better than any detailed long documentaries that are not even available for free.
Indeed 👏👏👏👏👏
I agree, definitely better than other history channels (king's and generals)
These videos are historically very inaccurate. They should be treated more like letsplays from Total War than descriptions of real events.
@@oleksandr2234 lol
@@oleksandr2234 how so? saying a statement like that with no evidence to back it up.....?
The polish Lithuanian commander took a page out of Alexander’s playbook at the battle of the Hydaspes. A well executed deceptive maneuver to cross the river.
Tactic knowladge of Comonwealth comanders was really impressive. Special in maneuver, logistic wich was use in attacks or making traps as a "wagenburg"
The PLC commander's operational maneuver was excellent. I think the Russian commander handled the battle on tactical level excellently. the way he pried apart the PLC position with maneuver was well conducted. The PLC commander also handled things very well on a tactical level. the Shifting of the heavy cav to the right was crucial in saving the PLC army. the fight back once the Russians started giving ground was also very well done. ultimately it came down to the PLC's troops stubborn resolve but it easily could have gone the other way.
@@seanmac1793 Their stubborn resolves plus the polish Lithuanian commander had a tactical response to every Russian maneuver.
@abdoulo7737 for a while, but by the time the Russians attacked in the center, the PLC force without reserve, understandably so. It was really just down to sheer grit that the Center didn't break
Polish-Lithuanian commander who was the the grand hetman of Lithuania and an Orthodox Ruthenian.
Thanks for this one! Cheers from land of Hussars!
Thanks for PLC history. It is not very heavily explored in English speaking internet and it's good that you are changing that. Great job!
Далеко не только польская история
@@villiamkost5095he said PLC not Poland. It stands for Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
@@notsoeloquent familiarize yourself with the full name of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. The full name was as follows: Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Rus (that's what the lands of modern Ukraine were called, it has nothing to do with modern Russians) and Zhemantiy. Therefore, if we talk about percentages, in the Commonwealth of Nations, Polish lands accounted for about 45-50%, Ukrainian 35-40%, and then all the rest.
@@villiamkost5095 we already know all that. Therefore, PLC is not just Polish history by definition, but history of Poland, Lithuania, Belarus and Ukraine.
They ALL spoke polish. Poles gave them culture, language, influences and with time became united on every issue. Todays Lithuania, belarus, Ukraine have nothing to do wtih the glorious past really... Just the Stalins creations. Face the truth!
@@notsoeloquent
Perfect video for me today! :D
Currently playing Poland in a boardgame of Europa Universalis! Its been rough but I've vassalized Lithuania, annexed Prussia and smashed a Swedish occupation of Livonia! 💪😎💪
Lol
I forgot to add, the Battle of Kircholm 1605 deserves similar attention, it is also the "away performances" of the Polish hussars. This battle is, by the way, still taught at West Point today as the art of battle tactics
"The descendants of the century will be more surprised at this victory than they will believe it" - Jakub Sobieski, father of Jan III Sobieski, later the king of Poland, victor of Vienna in 1683.
You meant Polish Lithuanian hussars...
there is a video about Battle of Kircholm on this very channel, uploaded not too long ago
@@sergeithe9936 Yes, the author of the video blog has already instructed me. Thanks for the info. Regards
Battle of Kircholm is an absolute classic! It teaches you how the small force can almost obliterate huge, entire army. I said almost, because the opposite force was broken, but not finished. There was no glory in that. That was left to pleb's peasants, who finished off the rest of the Swedes!
@@kestutissamogitian1899 He meant that and west Russians. There were also Scots, Dutch, Czech, Hungarian, Germanic tribes and who knows who else. They were in mostly of support for Hussars, although playing important role as well!
What a masterfully played battle given the conditions! Crossing river, ruse, man disadvantage, long march toward enemy position, enemy choose ground but was still surprised. Minimal losses. Perfect result. Decisive victiory.
Russians: It's over Hussars, we have you surrounded
Polish Hussars: All we're surronded by is fear and dead men!
MENIN AND POZHARSKY : 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@imperatorisamoderzhetsvser2564 who ?
@@chlopakzpolski Minin and Pozharsky are liberators of Moscow
Pozharsky is @@Baron_Scarpia so what they have in common with Orsza Battle ?
It's over, Russians. We have high ground!
As a Lithuanian i am so excited of this stories! Thank you! So proud of your work and keep going!
@@ic8647 da Litovci ne Zemait. I tichat vatnik
@@ic8647 Pasol ti znaes gde
@@ic8647 195 countrys think that lithuania is lithuania 1 country thinks that belarus is lithuania
@@SuperPubas to be fair not all modern day Lithuania is Lithuania proper, Northern Belarus was also historically Litwa (Lida, Ashmiany, Navahradak and so on) and Zemaity is in modern day Lithuania. But to even talk about GDL in a context of nations that came to life after partitions is kinda stupid. We still don't know for sure who Mindoug was ethnically, still don't know where his first capital was etc.
It's our common history
@@SuperPubas Masz rację , historyczna Litwa to dzisiejsza Białoruś zaś współczesna Litwa to dawniejsza Żmudz
Thanks!
Thank you so much for the support. Very kind of you!
Its worth noting that at this time the Polish and Lithuanian hussars were light cavalry, only being converted to heavy after the reforms of Stefan Batory in the 1570's. At this time the heavy cavalry were lancers largely indistinguishable from French Gendarmes and the like (the real difference being less companies used armoured horses and so called Gothic armour remained popular for longer).
Exactly!
(Edit: or perhaps not so exactly. It's complicated. See the comments by Kamil Szadkowski below for more nuance).
I big "oofed" when I say the thumbnail. That's seems very dishonest.
@@Velkan1396 it's ok they were Hussars there
@@khal7702 those are winged hussars, not the hussars that we would hace seen st Orsha.
Yes, from 1502 to 1570's Hussars were the light cavalry
The Polish - Lithuanian Army formed in its classic formatiom , The Old Polish Order ! In the year 1514 ! Im so proud to be Polish .
Me too.
And me!
А горжусь что литовец которы брат полякам.
This victory was almost exclusivelly done by Lithuanians and Ruthenians. Polish king sent 500 men that were not even from PLC
@@PaulDuchy "Meanwhile, Sigismund the Old gathered some 35,000 troops, most of whom (57%) were Poles,[7] for war with his eastern neighbor. His army was inferior in numbers, but consisted mostly of well-trained cavalry."
Witam :) Jestem pod wrazem wierności przekazania historycznych wydarzeń . Pozdrawiam i gratuluje .
Thank you for covering a battle I had never heard of before! Great work as usual. Keep it up!
The entire time of XV-XVII centuries in this region is planted heavily with battles like this one or even bigger and more prominent.
Важлива битва в українській історії , черговий раз дали пи@ди москалям 😅
Thank you! As for me, your channel now is Nr. 1 of Historical channels. Cuz Kings ang Generals are now сompromised.
My Polish ancestors were Winged Hussars at Vienna 1683. My father has one of their szabla (saber). I reenact a WH. The thing to remember is their Kopia's ( lances) were 14-18 feet long. Way longer than pikeman's pike. Hussars were armed with 3 swords, 2 pistols, war hammer or axe, dagger, and some even had bows. When the kopias broke. They would transition to the Koncerz. Which is a long 4 edged straight thrusting sword. The last sword was the Palasz. This was a 5 lbs hacking broadsword. These 2 weapons were in scabbards running along the side of the saddle, under the legs of the hussars. These 3 weapons were to enable the hussar to fight his way back through the enemy line to reack his retainer with replacement kopias. They were armed to the teeth. Their armor was proof tested against firearms. They wore a predatory animal pelt (cheetah, tiger etc) to unnerve opposing cavalry horses. Even the pennant at the end of the kopia was to distract the opposing horse.
Nice I have hussar ancestors to
Ukrainians were not hussars
@@Matan93 he said “My polish ancestors”. It’s literally the first three words in his comment, you illiterate dope.
and you use "pravi sektor" = nazi symbols and ukies have never been husars, you are fake.
@@Matan93 "My Polish ancestors..."
I'm always amazed by the numbers of cavalry involved in eatern Europe battles
The distances in the Eastern Europe are nothing comparable to these in the West. Too infantry heavy army in Eastern European Theater up till late 1700s would be simply outmaneouvered and starved to death by scortched earth tactics.
I got the same feeling about this. One of my own think why was that is eastern frontier of Polish Lithuanian Commonwelth was lack of rocks and others rescources to build much more castles and towns with walls in compare to west and south-west side.
@@Gogson4 brick castles can be built without stone. And in the age of gunpowder combined wood and earth fortifications were just as good as a stone wall, if not better.
Look the terrain. That's why some countries need a lot of tanks nowadays.
I am always amazed how powerful hussars were. And even more amazed that back in the history my oryginie country was doing something properly.
I can tell by the music at the beggining that Hannibal is in charge of this army, I'm excited to see how he handles 16th century forces!
Thank you and appreciate the historical background which put the battle in context.
Regarding many comments and video description: this was NOT a battle of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Back then, Poland and Lithuania were two independent states under one king/Grand Duke(Sigismund I the Old at the time of battle). PLC was formally brought to life by his son Sigismund II Augustus in 1569. It's like calling England under Henry VIII the UK.
The king ruled Lithuania as well as Poland. However, the Union was connected with the person of the monarch Sigismund I the Old.
@@arturceberek555 formally, only Poland was a kingdom. Yes, Lithuania was ruled by a king since the time of Jagiellon dynasty(courtesy of them being kings of Poland), but a formal title of a ruler of Lithuania was Grand Duke. It remained even in a full formal title of rulers of Commonwealth (King of Poland, Grand Duke of Lithuania etc etc).
@@africacorpse8010 anyway it was a great union
At that time Kingdom of Poland and Grand Duchy of Lithuania were not connected by personal but DYNASTIC union. GDoL had a right to elect its own Grand Duke who not necessarily was a king of Poland.
bullshit. military , political and economic integration was on the run fot 1oo years. Lithuania would never able to wage any war without the crown army.full union took place about 50 years later
I know that many already asked you BUT when you think you can do the rest of Hannibal's story? You've done such a detailed work, with so many infos (obviously there is nothing left out) that pulled me from ep.1 and cant wait for more. Ofc, we must say that war is horrible thing... Learning about so many bloody battles, with tens of thousands dying on a single day, makes you realize the dread nature of humans! I study war history in general and im really shocked on how much evil humans are capable of, either out of personal ego, greed, hollow ambition, etc.
Same. I hope the rest of Hannibal's story is in production.
Great work! Please keep up the videos. They are one of the small things that brings me enjoyment.
Excellent episode.
Please add in a mile/kilometer scale to the battle maps to gain more insight into the situation.
Thank you.
I think the winged Hussars is one of, if not the coolest military unit in history!
That was so good :D Please do the Battle of Vienna!
There is an epic Belarusian song dedicated to this battle performed by Stary Olsa and called "Arshanskaya bitva"
HM I wasn’t as big on your style as say kings and generals early on but after a couple years of watching the content you make, I’ve come to favor your stuff over the rest.
Maps in the kings and general battles are often inaccurate and battles are simplified. Instead of the units being shown as fleeing they are fully magically destroyed...
I personally from the start liked HistoryMarche the best because as you say they give way more detailed info, tempo is slower and more immersive and you can appreciate all parts of the battle. BazBattles is second best to me, too bad they post videos very rarely as of late.
Hussars is bad ass ! I love hearing about Hussars.
Prime force in Europe at that time.
¡Gracias!
Thank you so much for the support!
Thanks for sharing this knowledge! I am from Poland and didn't know that, shame on me. Lucky we got You!
Nice to see a video on a battle from the Muscovite-Lithuanian Wars. They really don't get much attention. Wouldn't mind seeing more documentaries on them. Say for example the Battle of Vedrosha, 1500
Muscovite Polish wars .Without polish crown Lithuania woud not exist long as a independent dutchy
@@pawelchmielewski1 I'd say it was fought by the Commonwealth. Even if it wasn't Commonwealth.
Polish crown is another ''discussion''. But yeah, they are known as Muscovite-Lithuanian Wars. Whatever.
Wikipedia states, _''The Battle of Orsha ... was a battle fought on 8 September 1514, between the allied forces of the _*_Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland, under the command of Lithuanian_*_ Grand Hetman Konstanty Ostrogski ... The Battle of Orsha was part of a long series of _*_Muscovite-Lithuanian Wars_*_ conducted by Muscovite rulers striving to gather all the former Kievan Rus' lands under their rule.''_
To be correct there were Polish-Lithuanian Wars not only Lithuanian
The poles barely even helped, they didn't care much for such a ''far away'' war. @@pawelchmielewski1
@@pawelchmielewski1 Bitwa pod Orszą była częścią wojny litewsko-moskiewskiej. Nie było jeszcze Unii Lubelskiej. Polska włączyła się do tej wojny, ale w tej bitwie siły litewskie liczebnie zdecydowanie dominowały a głównodowodzącym był hetman wielki litewski. Po Unii Lubelskiej nadal istniały dwie osobne armie, ale wtedy koordynowały swoje działania, choć zdarzały się animozje między dowódcami polskimi i litewskimi.
Your work never disappoints!
Fantastic video! Really interesting tactics being used. Always love an underdog victory
Yes, the two commanders really showed their skill in this one
the best History Channel in the youtube ...
thank you for your efforts .. you the best
Love the back round sound n music, excellent!
Great video as always.
Wonderful telling of complex and exciting history. Thanks.
Suggestion: something that might help is flashing some art near the start of each episode so we have an idea how each side was equipped. I only have a vague idea what "Polish light cavalry" would mean for this period. Nothing fancy as Osprey color plates, but anything to give a accurate visual idea of how each side was equipped.
In general, it would be nice if they at least tried to give some detail about the respective army compositions. Otherwise, the battle becomes very abstract for everyone who is not familiar with the military history of a given region.
Good point. There is a Renaissance painting brilliantly illustrating the battle, known as the "Battle of Orsha". The painting was created shortly after the battle according to the school of Lucas Cranach and today is in the collection of the National Museum in Warsaw, but its large reproductions can be found on the web.
It is very possible that the artist (Hans Krell?) was present in the battle himself - the picture has the true value of a reporter's account, full of details!
Tactics, appearance, weapons, course of events, etc. are precisely and realistically depicted.
Impressive! Great animation, awesome voice. As for the text&sentences structure, all hats off! Again, quite a pleasure on all levels, thanks a lot! Such quality keeps me humble&curious.
Sabaton is waiting to enter the chat…. But then…. THE WINGED HUSSARS ARRIVED
Fun fact: in this period the hussar formations just started to appear in the Polish-Lithuanian armies, looked quite different from their future iconic "winged" selfs, and were light cavalry; playing supporting role to the main shock force of that time - the heavy lancers in full plate (including horse armor). Also, these early hussars had shields. Look up the painting Battle of Orsha for reference.
Sabaton suck
@@TheMrcassina No, they dont
@@TheMrcassina shut up herectic! Sabaton are the better! ✌
We all knew that sooner or late someone had to say this lmao
With this video, you just got a new suscriber, amazing one.
Welcome aboard
You made so many videos about Polish military history, which I am grateful of. But did you plan to make a series about the beginning of Kingdom of Poland? Great struggle between Mieszko I and Bolesław the Brave against German Emperors?
not german emperors, it was against 1st reich back then send by rome to chrystianize Slavic people...
@@oinkoink6092 Holy Roman Emperors to be precise
Learnt something new. Thank you
Look a bit like battle at Cannae? 🤔 Love sooooo much your videos. Greetings from Croatia ✌️
Thank you very much.
Very nice video! Thank you 🥳
Interesting material, I learned about it long time ago, but not in such details. Refreshing.
Interesting battle. The poles sure were good fighters in this period.
Oh yeah, PLC army was known throughout Europe during this period. No one wanted to mess with them.
@@HistoryMarche Tatars did regularly. Muskovites, too. Both with a success.
@@sobolzeev No ..Muskovites were wooped like little bitches xD ...Tatars win if they ...win only by enormous unit advantage.... besides they attack like Vikings ...cowardly on unguarded villages town ..mostly killing civilians if Poles have Castles equipment and numbers .... they totally rape any enemy they have in front of them. Swedes have even an contract that if Hussars enter the battle they have a right to fled from field :)
@@sobolzeev Well, if you call border raids a success then yeah, sure. But many years had to pass after Orsha for Muscovy and Tatars to win an actual war against PLC. Even then it had to be weakened i.e. during Swedish "Deluge". Power balance fluctuated.
@MrSagaTeller Loss of Smolensk and Seversk lands, as well as Pleskov and Novgorod, can be well counted as such a success. Loss of Polotsk in 1563 was a brink of catastrophe for Lita, and required scales of Stefan Bathory reforms. You may consider it still profitable for the Crown, which encroached Rus lands south of Pripec River in 1569. However, it was the inner policy on these lands that sparkled the civil war which have ruined the PLC.
I'm polish, i love history, but i hear about this battle first time, thanks HistoryMarche
może zacznij książki czytać, to jeden z największych polskich sukcesów
Ups.. To jednak się nie da, interesować historią tego okresu, a nie słyszeć o Orszy.
Opis bitwy poznałem z książki Dzieje oręża polskiego, Warszawa 1968. Ta staroć zawiera też kilka czarno białych fotografii obrazów olejnych. Ciekawe, nigdy nie próbowałem odnaleźć reprodukcji lepszej jakości...
@@teraz.tak.jutro.inaczej Faktycznie trudno nie było słyszeć o bitwie, która zatrzymała Moskiewską ekspansję na kilkadziesiąt lat.
Ale pierwszy raz widziałem jej przebieg.
Opis przebiegu bitwy mam dostępny z książki powyżej. Są tam także zamieszczone schematy sytuacyjne przebiegu bitwy. Wszystko jest mniej więcej zgodne z tym co zamieścili tutaj autorzy. Większy rozbieżności nie znalazłem.
Ale przeczytać, zobaczyć mapki, a zobaczyć animację to nie to samo. Autorzy wykonali tutaj kawał dobrej roboty.
Thanks HistoryMarche.
Napiszę to jeszcze raz otwartym tekstem, wystarczy wpisać w wyszukiwarkę, zakładka grafika "bitwa pod orszą obraz" aby wyszukać obraz olejny z początku XVI w. Autorstwo nieznane, ale sami zobaczcie.
Świetnie opisane, dobra grafika, wspaniała wygrana
It is great that you differentiate Ruthenian and Russian people
"Ruthenia" is an exoethnonym used to designate the inhabitants of the occupied territories in western Rus'. Fortunately, justice prevailed and they were able to unite with their brothers in the northeast, who called themselves Russians in the Byzantine manner. Since then, exonym "ruthenia" has sunk into oblivion as a dark and powerless past.
@@Shab_Kom different languages, different cultures. There were no Russians. Peter decided to take this Greek name for Moskovia. And habitants of Rus aren’t Russians they are Rusyns. Later in 19 century when all nations appears they were rebrended to Ukrainians because centre of wide moving to south-east from original Rus lands (Kyiv, Pereyaslav and Chernihiv).
@@dimadubnevych9164 You are pointlessly ignoring thesis of my comment. I won't repeat myself. Although I did not argue with the fact that Rusyns are also an endo-ethnonym. Look at your first comment: "It is great that you differentiate Ruthenian and Russian people". This is complete nonsense, read the Wikipedia articles about the Eastern Slavs, and especially about the exonym “ruthenia”, endoethnonyms: “Russians”, “Rusyns”.
@@Shab_Kom But they are simply not. Because Russians has never ever named Rusyns neither by themselves neither by their neighbors. And Rusysns have never ever called Russians. Russian is an adjective. In slav language it is not they way ethnic groups are named. Rus, Wes, Muroma, Lytva (noun of female ). And single person is ended with yn. Rusyn, Mordvyn, Lytvyn etc. Russian has never been Rusyns. Further more even those who are named Rusyns like Ukrainian and Transcarpathian Rusyns are considered to be different nations. And in general all this staff around Rus is a littble bit artificial because Rus was simply a conglomeration of different slav and finn tribes united by normans and trade route. And it collapsed when the main source of it power (trading with Byzantiya) were interrupted by Crusaders who destroyed Constantinopol.
Did you actually mean Dima looks like he studied at an evening university of the pro- 🟨🟦 Marx? Because I'm definitely not a fan of this son of a jew
Great job with putting this video together
As always, spectacular video
Glad you enjoyed it
Thank you for this!
Oh my, yes. Thank you for this.
This is great example how powerful is coordination between Ukrainians, Poles, Belarusians and Lithuanians.
Love your channel.
Ukrainian doesn’t exist in 17 century 😅😮
@@cya3mdirl158 As well as Russia 😮
Those are historical terms to describe people and realms in history.
@@sircatangry5864 not really. Ukraine is artificial country
@@cya3mdirl158 Ukranians have joke about this "artificiality" of their nation.
"Austrians tried to imagine ukranian language so hard, that they forgot to imagine Austrian"
@@sircatangry5864 I don’t remember any king of Ukraine but when we look at history Poland we can see about 30 kings
Later, for 150 years, no one was equal to the Polish cavalry
This was quite awesome. Great stuff
very good video also the polish wing hussars are MY PERSONAL FAV OF ALL THE CLAVARY UNITS IN THE WORLD
Regular hussars fought this Battle Im afraid, not winged ones, they did not exist until later in the century.
@@Velkan1396 There was never such a thing as "winged hussars". Such a term literally doesn't exist in Poland. Hussars were always just that... hussars. No adjectives are needed.
@@kamilszadkowski8864 oh sure, it's not useful at all to have a term that separates hussars without armor from hussars with armor.
@@Velkan1396 No such terms were used historically. In Old Polish military history, unit names are usually umbrella terms and a great deal of variety between individual banners or even members of a single banner is implied.
What you are trying to describe could be referred to as "Early Hussars". Although such a description isn't perfect either as even in the early stages you can occasionally stumble on hussar banners being armored head to toe and using barded horses. Three such banners were recruited in 1530.
And even among more lightly armoured banners there were soldiers wearing armour, particularly the officers. So I guess the preferable way would be to judge banners on an individual basis.
Also what you are trying to describe as "winged hussars" isn't an apt description as hussars weren't uniform at the later time either. Their equipment still varied depending on the time frame, campaign, and the type of enemy. Such flexibility in terms of equipment was required because of the wide variety of enemies the PLC had to deal with. Everything from Western-style armies to steppe hordes.
@@kamilszadkowski8864 It doesn't Matter if "Winged Hussars" wasn't used historically, it's still useful to differentiate the kind of hussar of later in the century and the kind of hussar that fought at Orsha.
The debate on how to name the hussars over their 500+ years of History can be had elswhere.
So save your condescendig remarks about what Im "trying" to do for some other time.
Great job!
great watch as always👍👍
The claim of 500 dead is not unrealistic considering that Hussars themselves have lost 4% of their forces in their worst cases. The loses in horses though, were sometimes reaching even 50%.
I wish the videos were longer, I love these videos
What about a playlist with Polish and Lithuanian wars with Russia/Sweden/Turkey etc? Currently we see the Central Europe emerge as a significant player, which if everything goes right, could be understood as the rebirth of the Commonwealth but in different political system(s). A playlist like that would, ekhm, refer to nowadays challenges let's say.
@9/11 was done by bush Ottomans got swept by us Polish at Vienna, don't lie.
@9/11 was done by bush Ottoman is Turkish Empire you fool!
@@elliot4013 Ottoman Polish War 1672-1676
@@elliot4013 And later the Austrians have snached up a part of Poland...
@@diabelgrogaty1963 we were betrayed. Without us Polish the Austrians would have been crushed to dust, they were so near that fate.
Great video as always HM!
I love Poland !!!
Great to have as usual an insight into that ignored by others who make historical documentaries.
HIstoryMarche, there are videos I can't wait to watch such as:
Rise of Augustus Caesar (Part 6)
Prince Eugene of Savoy (episode 3)
Basil II, the Bulgar slayer (part 2)
First War of Scottish Independence, (Part 4)
Third Samnite War (Part 3)
Hannibal, Second Punic War (Part 19)
Kinda ironic to think that it's 510 years ago and Russia is still stuck at the Dnipro River in Ukraine. Ukraine needs some Polish Hussars to break the deadlock...
Это Польше нужны украинские козаки , чтоб остаться Польшей .
Idi na huu, zhivotnoe)
As others have said, the Hussars at the time were light cavalry, nothing alike the later winged hussars. The thumbnail could be quite missleading imo, I would replace it.
It's also interesting to point out that according to Tomas Baranauskas, the infantry on the polish side were the (or most of the) bohemian mercenaries, some 3000 men, both light and heavy.
There's a very nice painting of the battle that depicts equipment that could have been used by both infantry and cavalry, even if it dates around 1530-35, the style of the arms and armor looks the part.
In Poland and Lithuania Czech mercenaries were popular, because they were cheaper than German ones.
great review of the battle
I need more videos. Please make more. Thank you
Awesome video! Makes me want to play more civ v!
great video!
Awesome as always
Please remember that hussars werent winged yet. At this time they were Also rather light cavlry
very true, but can't blame people about being excited about Winged Hussars
Eh, they always were and weren't winged. It is a complicated topic, suffice it to say hussars as shown in pop culture never really existed.
@@kamilszadkowski8864 it is not complicated. In 1514 they were not winged. They become winged around 1560 or something
But our heavy cavalry was the most armored at that time, just look at the pictures from the era, I recommend the battle of Orsha. The hussars under the command of Radziwil were then light cavalry
@@G0TIMAN Bullshit. Some early hussars had wings attached to their shields.
Greetings from Stockholm 👍
Cleverly done corrective editing I love your channel.
According to Webster's the word hussar stems from the Hungarian huszár, which in turn originates from the Serbian хусар (Husar, or гусар, Gusar) meaning pirate, from the Medieval Latin cursarius (cf. the English word corsair).[19] A variant of this theory is offered by Byzantinist scholars, who argue the term originated in Roman military practice, and the cursarii (singular cursarius).[20] Through Byzantine Army operations in the Balkans in the 10th and 11th centuries when Chosarioi/Chonsarioi were recruited with especially Serbs,[21] the word was subsequently reintroduced to Western European military practice after its original usage had been lost with the collapse of Rome in the west.[22]
The hussars reportedly originated in bands of mostly Serbian warriors [23] crossing into Kingdom of Hungary after the Ottoman invasion of medieval Serbian state at the end of the 14th century. The Governor of Hungary, Hunyadi János - John Hunyadi, created mounted units inspired by his enemy the Ottoman Turks. His son, Hunyadi Mátyás Matthias Corvinus, later king of Hungary, is unanimously accepted as the creator of these troops. Initially they fought in small bands, but were reorganised into larger, trained, formations during the reign of King Matthias Corvinus.[24][25] Initially the first units of Polish hussars in the Kingdom of Poland were formed in 1500, which consisted of Serbian mercenaries.[26]
Thanks for that! When 4K on the channel?
5:32 Shame you didn't show Dvina and Dnieper rivers to better visualize the importance of Smoleńsk and the Smoleńsk Gate. The land bridge of Smoleńsk Gate between Dvina nad Dnepr would be self-explanatory
Poland defenders of Europe ! Good bless them..
Yes they make many times, against the mongol, against the ottoman together with the Hungarian. Europe had forgotten this? Big shame. Even the Big USA can be thankful about that. But they don't understand. Not even how theyr "country " was made. Who did make where you are today? I know, don't answer ( Europeans have make your country) and you still need them!!!
Polish liars of Europe)) They like to make a big deal out of a molehill. so it is with this battle
Russia is no less: 1237, 1480, many wars against ottomans, 1812, 1945
But do other Europeans remember this? In any case, their propaganda wants the opposite.
Ахах! Или в ж0ny,udиот)
Another excellent video HM!
Every Polish newborn should be listening to that in the crib instead of lullabies.
Classical battle from the Renaissance. The winning strategy was to confront the enemy army with the right armored, weapened and operating soldiers. Russian light cavalry attack on the right was countered by heavy cavalry, Russian light cavalry attack on the left was defended effective with pike and guns. The Russian centre was advancing too slow and late, surrounded and butchered. The account of the 500 death Poles seems right (without wounded).
Well done. I subscribed
Thanks and welcome
Even though in comparison to other who has greater graphics than your channel many find including me your channel more easy to understand while other channels almost very confusing since thier map and sometimes presentation isnt straight to the battle that's what makes you unique HM u still have the KISS principle Keep It Simple Stupid which is a navy term when designing thier planes and also require to focus more the quality than the looks so Thank you HM for this easy to understand videos 🥰.
Congrats Mago! Since your last video you overtook bazbattles in terms of suscribers.
Thanks, but creators don't really compete like that. It's really not how it works.
Polish Hussars were the Elite of Army at that time, so I wouldn't question the 1:26 loss ratio. This battle could resemble, for example, a clash between US Marines and Iraqis during a Desert Storm operation ...
Yeah but Russia defeated the poles and america too scared to try Russia
@@Ultra_Ego_Putin soon Ukraine will defeat ruSSia - without involving the US.
@@Ultra_Ego_Putinwhen russia defeat USA? XD
@@habuger12 America scared to try the Russian army always got the biggest mouth pull up already
@@Ultra_Ego_PutinSyria 2018
I like that the scout had to correct you on the timeline that's some creative humorous correction.
Russia never seems to learn that hordes does not equal to strategy.
This is far from a horde bum rush. Watch it again and look to see how the Russian commander carefully pried apart the enemy battle line with maneuver while maintaining a large body for a knock out charge, though it obviously didn't go the Russian's way in the end sometime it doesn't in war even when you do everything right.
A certain expert on China was asked to comment on current events and possible involvement of China in the conflict in Ukraine. He said that Russia is a Boyar culture and China is a Confucian culture. Bayar culture is that I go up against a wall and bang my head against it, so either the wall will crack or I'll blow my head off. Confucian culture, on the other hand, is that kinetic warfare itself is essentially a failure of the strategist. This is the difference:)
It does. Just look at WW2. Some russian soldiers didnt even have guns, just ammunition (they were said to take guns from dead soldiers) and yet they have beaten greatly organised, well trained and well equipped german army. Maybe in the medieval this was right but wehn guns replaced swords, it became mostly about how many guns can fire at the enemy.
@@abakumow не пей боярышник ,не рассказывай х- ню." Некий эксперт" ,боярская культура .Ты в каком веке живешь,батенька?
Орда вообще то была очень маленькая.А дошла до Адриатики и никто не мог ее остановить.Никакие рыцари .
Great visuals!
fascinating...the tactics used...those poor men went through hell n back
Great video, I just really need to put in my 5cents here though lol
Regarding how you name the armies as (sometimes) russian, Polish and Lithuanian. Here's how it's written in the Lithuanian (now it's Belarusian) chronicles:
Отрывок из Хроніки літоўская і жамойцкая» апісвае бітву пад Воршай:... "и была война великая, бо москвы было пятькрот болш, ниж поляков, руси и литвы." Translate: And there was a big battle, since the moscovites had a five time bigger army than Polish, Rus and Lithuanian (army)." By "Rus" the chronicler is referring to Ukrainians, not russians. The word russia or the country russia didn't exist until Peter l renamed tsardom of moscovy to legitimize their claim of inheriting the ancient Kyivan Rus. We see these claims being made to this day. That's why it's important to be historically accurate.
Good point.
Cope, hoholsky. There was never such thing as uraine in history. Your poor little okrayna was always part of Russia and never had a state up until the Russian revolution.
Brilliant work