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
Jan Karal Chadkievič. Ян Караль Хадкевіч
Grand Hetman Chodkiewicz
Jan Karol Chodkiewicz painted by Juliusz Kossak
Jan Karol Chodkiewicz (in red) at Chocim, 1621
Battle of Kircholm
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The Battle of Kircholm took place on 17 September 1605 during the Polish–Swedish War near Kircholm, now Salaspils in Latvia. A Swedish expedition besieging Riga was defeated by a smaller Polish–Lithua
Jan Karol Chodkiewicz
…the Polish–Swedish War of 1600–11, the Polish–Muscovite War of 1605–18, and the Polish–Ottoman War of 1620–1621. His most famous victory was the Battle of Kircholm in 1605, in which he dealt a major defeat to a Swedish army three times the size of his own. He died on the front lines during the battle of Khotyn…
Battle of Kircholm by Peter Snayers, 1620s
The Krikholme Battlefield by January Suchodolski
Polish-Lithuanian cavalry charge
A memorial stone in Salaspils (formerly Kircholm), Latvia, commemorating Henrik Wrede's sacrifice.