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Every Cossack had to procure his own uniform, equipment and horse (if mounted), the government supplying only the arms. Cossacks on active service were divided into three equal parts according to age, and only the first third (approximately age 18–26) normally performed active service, while the rest effectively functioned as reserves, based ...
For the government, deploying Cossacks as a para-military police force was the best solution as the Cossacks were viewed as one of the social groups most loyal to the House of Romanov while their isolation from local populations was felt to make them immune to revolutionary appeals. [84]
The Zaporozhian Cossacks were not the only notable group of Cossacks; others included the Don Cossack Host, Sloboda Cossacks, Terek Cossacks and Yaik Cossacks. [8] As the Tsardom of Muscovy took over the disputed Cossack lands from Poland–Lithuania, all Cossacks eventually came under Russian rule, but the Tsarist and later Imperial government ...
The Cossacks were most keenly aware of the loss of their special status and direct contact with the czar and his government. The Imperial government endeavored to keep the matter of the rebellion strictly secret or, failing that, to portray it as a minor outbreak that would soon be quelled.
One of the St. Elizabeth fortress cannons. The Cossacks did not expect such a development, and therefore in Zaporozhye at that time there were very few soldiers. There were only a few thousand Cossacks in the Sich at that time, and the rest went to palanquins and winter quarters after the war.
Janissaries attempted to deter the Cossacks by firing at them, the Cossacks dug under the city and placed explosives under the city walls. [6] On June 18, the explosives were activated and the city walls were breached, killing many Ottoman Janissaries and civilians in process. [6] After some fighting, the Janissaries retreated to the castle.
The Zhmaylo uprising (Polish: Powstanie Żmajły) was a Cossack rebellion headed by Marek Zhmaylo against the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1625. On 5 November Marek Zhmaylo was deprived of his title and Hetman Mykhailo Doroshenko was chosen to sign the Treaty of Kurukove, pledging allegiance to the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland.
The Khmelnytsky Uprising, [a] also known as the Cossack–Polish War, [3] or the Khmelnytsky insurrection, [4] was a Cossack rebellion that took place between 1648 and 1657 in the eastern territories of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, which led to the creation of a Cossack Hetmanate in Ukraine.