QuoteReplyTopic: Interesting British account of battle of Klushino Posted: 20-Mar-2016 at 07:13
The religion of mercenaries wasnt important because that time many Poles were protestants as well. The king and majority of people were catholic, counter-reformation movement was getting stronger but still many favoured protestant religion and their rights were guaranted by so called "Warsaw Confederation Act".
Henry Brereton's account of the battle of Klushino 1610. The joined armies of Russia and Sweden (30-35 thousands soldiers including about 2000 English and Scottish mercenaries) were defeated by Polish army of 6000-7000 soldiers. Quite interesting piece of archaic English:
And his opinion on quality of Polish troops and Russian:
Edited by Mosquito - 19-Mar-2016 at 16:14
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