![]() ![]() – Artyomovsk: New soldier: military-historical almanacīrzezinski R.Throughout the history of combat, there are only a few examples of military formations that were as effective as the famous winged hussars. Winged hussars were replaced by more efficient, mobile and lightly armed Polish lancers. But in the end, in 1775, the Seym decided to abolish the hussar. The Polish and Ukrainian plain landscape and the need to fight with the Turks, Tatars and Russians for a long time extended the use of hussars. The commander of the Polish army, the hetman coroner Jerome Lubomirsky ordered the retreat from the battlefield. The very first general battle of Klischev in 1702 revealed the advantage of the Swedes – the Polish cavalry unit, half of which were winged hussars, was stopped by artificial obstacles (Spanish goats). The Polish army was faced with an excellent Swedish army. The hussars could not counterpose them to the tactics of the walking-city and squall gunfire.Īt the beginning of the XVIII century, the Commonwealth was drawn into the Northern War. However, the Ukrainian Cossacks struck the most tangible blow to the hussars. Similar scenes were repeated in 1626 under Anger, under Dirschau (1627), and during the Flood (1655-1658). In August 1622, under the Mitau, the hussars could not even launch an attack, pressed by the fire of the Swedish musketeers and gunners. The reformed armies of Western European states successfully opposed the hussars, and when they clashed with them, the hussars became an ineffective anachronism. With the development of firearms and artillery, by the beginning of the 17th century, heavy cavalry began to disappear from the composition of the Western European armies. The union state weakened, after a century the territory of the Commonwealth was divided between its neighbors. However, the Polish economy was undermined, the soldiers did not receive a salary for more than ten years. The threat of conquest of Western Europe by the Muslim Ottoman Empire was removed. The battle of Vienna was the last significant victory of the Hussars commanded by King Jan III Sobieski. In 1683, the Polish Hussars came to the aid of Vienna besieged by the Turks and deserved the reputation of “the bravest warriors ever met under the sun”. In his address to the Sejm, he called the hussar “the backbone of military soldier power … its decoration and defense … like not to be found in any other country”. In the face of the Ottoman threat, Jan Sobieski formed all new hussar companies and re-formed light cavalry into hussars. The Tatars Hussars won in the Battle of Lvov (1675). The hussars successfully acted against the Russians and the Turks. Hussars played a decisive role in the Battle of Trzcian (1629). In the battle of Klushin, 6,800 Poles, of whom there were about 5,500 hussars, defeated the 35,000-strong Russian army, which included about 5,000 Swedish mercenaries Delagardi. The Polish Hussaria reached its greatest number in 1621 – its number in the Khotyn battle was 8,280. Then came triumphant victories over the Swedish army, numerically superior to the Poles, at Kokenhausen (1601), Wassenstein (1604) and at the Battle of Kirholm in 1605, and also over the Russian-Swedish army at Klushin in 1610. Hussars at that time accounted for 75% of the entire Polish cavalry and were considered invincible. Further victories were achieved over the Habsburgs of Bychin (1588) and over the Moldavians under Bukov in 1600. ![]() Then followed a series of victories in the war with Russia (1577–1582). The outcome of the battle of Lyubeshov (1577) predetermined the actions of the hussar Stephen Báthory. Hussars played a decisive role in many battles in which it participated: the battle of Orsha in 1514, and the battle of Obertyn in 1531. ![]()
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