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Scythemen, also
known as scythe-bearers is the term for
soldiers (often
peasants and townspeople)
armed with war scythes.
First appearing in the Kościuszko...
- and
Silesian Uprising in 1921. The
description of a
fighting unit as "
scythemen" was used in
Poland as late as 1939; however, the
Gdynia "kosynierzy"...
- of
Mokronowski from
Lithuania for a
total of 6,000
regulars and 10,000
scythemen, with 28 guns. For the Russians, the ****ault was successful, the Poles...
- 2nd Kraków
Grenadier Regiment was a
scythemen regiment of the
insurrection army
during the Kościuszko
Uprising in 1794. Both 1st and 2nd
regiments were...
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Emilia Plater,
often nicknamed as a
Lithuanian Joan of Arc,
leading peasant scythemen during the 1831 uprising...
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Emilia Plater leading peasant scythemen;
painted by Jan Rosen...
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personally leading an
infantry charge of
peasant volunteers (kosynierzy,
scythemen). Nonetheless, this
Russian defeat was not
strategically significant,...
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ordered a
retreat from the town. He left
about 500
scythemen to
cover the
retreat of the main forces.
Scythemen attacked the
Russian left
flank and
routed Russian...
- (The
Charge at Węgrów), in
which he
compared the
attack of the
Polish scythemen troops on
Russian cannon to the
heroic deeds of the
ancient Spartiates...
- coat-of-arms. In Poland,
especially regions surrounding Kraków, the
memory of
Scythemen (Polish: Kosynierzy) of the 1794 Kościuszko
Uprising is
still vivid and...
