Przemarsz armii koronnej pod Chocim podczas kampanii letniej 1538 roku w świetle dokumentacji skarbowo-wojskowej

Bołdyrew, Aleksander

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“…Even though the siege was stopped, the hetman managed to sign a peace treaty with the Moldavian duke, favorable for Poland, and soon after his dethronement -to diplomatically defend the conditions of the agreement. There are data from that period referring to 7,066 soldiers of the paid cavalry 50 . The other important campaign was the so-called Pozwole expedition (1557).…”

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Meanders of the Polish Military Revolution — Standardization of Cavalry Units

Łopatecki¹,

Bołdyrew²

2021

Vestnik SPbSU. History

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The objective of the article is to show the phenomenon of the internal standardization of the units of the Polish cavalry in the 16th century. The references to this process, during which the diversisty of arms and equipment of soldiers was abandoned, are scarce in descriptive sources and are only reflected in normative acts. The only type of sources which enables to reconstruct the combat potential of units is inspection (rejestry popisowe). Consequently, the process of specialization of units and of formation of different types of cavalry was basically marginalized. In the Crown, as late as the 1530s, cavalry rotas were very diverse. They consisted of lancers, Polish winged hussars (later: hussars) and light cavalry combined in various proportions. This state of affairs is connected with three factors. Firstly, the units of Permanent Defense (obrona potoczna) in their structure referred to Mass Mobilization (pospolite ruszenie). Secondly, provisions of law were not used for standardizing the arms and armor; on the contrary, at least by the 1530s they stimulated the internal diversification. Thirdly, the Crown professional units were internally divided into towarzyszes and pocztowys, which prompted the diversification of armament inside a unit. The text shows the changes which occurred in the 1540s and 1550s, and brought about a situation in 1557, when the rate of standardization was as high as 82.93 %. The transformations were dynamic but were not top-down planned reforms, representing instead a bottom-up initiative of rotmistrzes.

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“…From 1550 onwards, the percentage of No. 32,35,36,[39][40][41][42]44,[48][49][50][51][52][53][54][55][56][57][58][59][60][61] hussars in the rotas of Sieniawski and Lubomirski does not fall below 80 %, and reaches even 90 %.…”

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Meanders of the Polish Military Revolution — Standardization of Cavalry Units

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Bołdyrew²

2021

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Depreciation of Military Service Costs in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries in Central-Eastern Europe

Łopatecki

Bołdyrew

2023

The Medieval History Journal

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The article presents the depreciation of soldiers’ equipment in the fifteenth–sixteenth centuries in Central-Eastern Europe based on the data from a dedicated financial institution existing in the Polish Kingdom until the 1560s. Soldiers received their pay, and the king additionally paid them compensation for any war damage. Owing to meticulous records, data were collected on 9,371 individuals. Based on the collected data, it has been established that the average losses in cavalry were equivalent to 40% of the pay and in infantry, the corresponding ratio was 13.7%. This formation was not only cheaper to equip, it was also less cost-intensive. The article elaborates on the background of the liquidation of this institution in the Polish Crown, combined with an increase in soldiers’ pay, who gained only seemingly. It was mainly a profitable operation for the state. It improved the budgeting process, increased the combat value of the soldiers, facilitated military bureaucratisation and prevented extorted compensation. After the reform, the depreciation in the cost of the soldier’s pay is estimated to have been about 1/3. The percentage chance of losing a horse, arms and armour was also calculated, demonstrating a huge equine mortality rate of 48.2% over three months of fighting.

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Przemiany uzbrojenia wojska polskiego na przełomie średniowiecza i nowożytności (1454–1572) jako przejaw (r)ewolucji militarnej

Bołdyrew

2020

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Zarys treści: W artykule poddano analizie przemiany uzbrojenia indywidualnego wojska polskiego na przełomie średniowiecza i nowożytności z punktu widzenia teorii rewolucji militarnej. Dowiedziono, że w omawianym okresie miała miejsce tzw. gunpowder revolution. Jest to jedna z cech dystynktywnych rewolucji militarnej, co więcej, można ją zaobserwować wcześniej niż w Europie Zachodniej. Mimo to na dłuższą metę nie przyniosła zmian w strukturze administracji wojskowej, a w dalszej konsekwencji w administracji państwowej. The content outline: The article features an analysis of the changes in the armament of the Polish Army soldiers at the turn of the Middle Ages and the early modern period from the point of view of the theory of military revolution. It is demonstrated that the so-called gunpowder revolution occurred in the discussed period. It is one of the characteristic features of the military revolution, with the changes in Poland preceding similar transformations in Western Europe. Nonetheless, in the long term the revolution did not bring about changes in the administrative structure of the military and, consequently, in the state administration.

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Przemarsz armii koronnej pod Chocim podczas kampanii letniej 1538 roku w świetle dokumentacji skarbowo-wojskowej

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Meanders of the Polish Military Revolution — Standardization of Cavalry Units

Meanders of the Polish Military Revolution — Standardization of Cavalry Units

Depreciation of Military Service Costs in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries in Central-Eastern Europe

Przemiany uzbrojenia wojska polskiego na przełomie średniowiecza i nowożytności (1454–1572) jako przejaw (r)ewolucji militarnej

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