Costs of Setting Up a Foreign Infantry Regiment in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the First Half of the Seventeenth Century Cover Image

Koszty wystawienia regimentu piechoty cudzoziemskiej w Wielkim Księstwie Litewskim w pierwszej połowie XVII wieku
Costs of Setting Up a Foreign Infantry Regiment in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the First Half of the Seventeenth Century

Author(s): Przemysław Gawron
Subject(s): Military history, Social history, 17th Century
Published by: Instytut Historii im. Tadeusza Manteuffla Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: foreign infantry; Krzysztof Radziwiłł; Janusz Radziwiłł; Smolensk War 1632–1634;

Summary/Abstract: The article brings up the issue of the costs of setting up the foreign infantry regiment for the 1632– –1634 Smolensk War by Lithuanian Field Hetman Krzysztof Radziwiłł and Lithuanian Chamberlain Janusz Radziwiłł. The author decided to analyse problems of the costs of this undertaking and the reasons why Radziwiłłs undertook the task.

  • Issue Year: 2019
  • Issue No: 5
  • Page Range: 145-160
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Polish