Jan Karol Chodkiewicz
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Jan Karol Chodkiewicz was a Polish–Lithuanian military commander of the Grand Ducal Lithuanian Army, who was from 1601 Field Hetman of Lithuania, and from 1605 Grand Hetman of Lithuania. He was one of
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Grand Hetman Chodkiewicz
Jan Karol Chodkiewicz painted by Juliusz Kossak
Jan Karol Chodkiewicz (in red) at Chocim, 1621
Battle of Moscow (1612)
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The Battle of Moscow was a series of two engagements that took place in Moscow on 1 and 3 September 1612, during the Polish–Russian War of 1609–1618 and the Time of Troubles. The forces of the Polish–
Jan Karol Chodkiewicz
…more, resulting in the mutiny of some units. Chodkiewicz fought several inconclusive battles against the Muscovites in autumn 1611 and then, after the Battle of Moscow (1612), retreated. Disappointed with the outcome, he became once again estranged from the king, and criticized the campaign at the Sejm of 1613. Over the next…
Surrender of the Moscow Kremlin to Prince Pozharsky, painting by Ernst Lissner (1938)
Minin (right) and Pozharsky (left) by Mikhail Scotti, 1850