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Zbarazh

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The Khan's army at the siege of Zbarazh

Editorial contextIn the history section, Chevalier describes the Polish commander Firley fortifying the town and castle of Zbarazh (in today's western Ukraine) before a huge Tartar and Cossack army surrounded it. He compares the host to those of Attila and Tamerlane, and on the next page stresses that the Khan himself was present in person.

the Army of the Tartars and Cossacks came and encompassed them in on all sides in such numbers, that there have been seldom seen the like forces together, since those of Attila and Tamerlan

Pierre Chevalier (translated by Edward Brown, 1672)

About Crimean Tatars allied with Khmelnytsky's Cossacks

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A partisan Polish-side narrative of the siege; the numbers are rhetorical.

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Continue in this sourceA French officer's account of the Cossacks and the Crimean Tartars17th century · 13 passages

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  1. 1651exact year
    Book of Campaigns
    WHaci Mehmed Senai of CrimeafirsthandW214