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The Cossacks' first engagement against the Red Army happened in December 1944 near Pitomača.
Born to a prominent Cossack family (he was a descendant of Ivan Bohun) in Kryva, Tarascha county, in Kiev Oblast, Honcharenko was the first Ukrainian political émigré to arrive in the United States.
The majority of its inhabitants agreed to evacuate their families and property to Nerchinsk, whereas several young Cossacks resolved to join the Manchu army and to relocate to Beijing.
Her company eventually captured the city of Temnikov and the local Cossacks selected her to be the leader.
He left some of the Cossacks on his way in order to set up the forts in Krasnovodsk and Alexandrovsk.
Since their common days as Soviet exiles in Munich in the early 1920s, he had been on friendly terms with Alfred Rosenberg whose views on the Caucasus and Cossacks as Circassians were largely shaped under Nikuradse's influence.
During the Russo-Turkish War (1828–1829), the Danubian Sich Cossacks, previously living in exile in Ottoman controlled Danube Delta were split in loyalty towards the Orthodox Russian Empire, who they left in 1775 and Islamic Ottoman Empire, which was about to start another war with Russia.
After the battle, its Political Commissars, Joseph Stalin and Kliment Voroshilov, failed to control the men in their command: with morale and discipline at a low point, robbery and violence by the 'Red Cossacks' against the civilian population became commonplace.
Vyhovsky's rivals, the Cossack forces of commanders Bezpalyi, Voronko and the Zaporizhian Cossacks of Barabash joined the Russian troops.
He placed a rifle infantry regiment from Lublin on the route to Udvarhely, with 5 rifle battalions, 12 cannon, another 4 squadrons of cavalry and 3 squadrons of Cossacks, placing General Engelhardt in command of the group.
At the same time, however, the Black Sea Cossacks also sent men to many major campaigns of the Russian Empire, such as the suppression of the Polish Kościuszko Uprising in 1794, the ill-fated Persian Expedition of 1796 where nearly half of the Cossacks died from hunger and disease.
Khokhol, a Russian term for a hairstyle characteristic of Cossacks
Negotiations began in January 1654 in Pereiaslav between Khmelnytsky, numerous cossacks and on the Muscovite side led Vasily Buturlin, and concluded in April in Moscow by the Ruthenians Samiilo Bohdanovych-Zarudny, and Pavlo Teteria and by Aleksey Trubetskoy, Vasilii Buturlin, and other Muscovite boyars.
They proved themselves in combat in the storming of Isaccea, and 10 Cossacks were awarded the Cross of St. George.
: 1812 Russian campaign - At Bourzovo, 400 dragoons charged cossacks ten times their numbers, and at Maloiaroslavets Louis-Michel Letort de Lorville charged the Russians with the cry "A nous les dragons !".
Following the reforms of the Russian government in 1734, cossacks were divided into two groups: Elected Cossacks and Cossack Helpers.
Among his forefathers are registered Christians (peasants) and registered Cossacks in the Russian Empire, descendants of Cossacks of Ukrainian Rus.
Like several other Ural villages, among them Parizh (Paris) and Berlin, it was named to honor the feats of Cossacks in the war against Napoleon—in this case, a victorious battle of Fère-Champenoise that took place on March 25, 1814.
War correspondent Francis McCullagh commented on the diverse ethnic backgrounds of Oebeliani's Brigade in his book With the Cossacks, but also mentioned that most of his men could not communicate well with other units due to their lack of ability in the Russian language.
As a result, some Cossacks, led by Iakiv Barabash, put forward an alternative candidate for the hetmancy in Martyn Pushkar, the colonel of the Poltava regiment of Cossacks.
The string of victories emboldened Khara Khula to take control of the salt mines near the Russian outpost at Tara in 1610 and demand a fee in exchange for the salt from the neighboring Cossacks and Siberian nomads.
Whites had three armies: Siberian Army (52,000 men, 83 guns, commander - Radola Gajda) on the northern flank between Glazov and Perm, Western Army (48,000 men, 120 guns, commander - Mikhail Hanzhin) in the middle between Birsk and Ufa, cossacks (11,000 - 13,000 men) on the southern flank.
On August 2, 2012, Governor of the Krasnodar Krai, Alexander Tkachyov announced a controversial plan to deploy a paramilitary force of unarmed, uniformed 1,000 Kuban Cossacks in the region to help police patrol, charged with preventing an influx of he described as "illegal immigration" from the neighboring Caucasian republics.
After the Napoleonic wars, Langeron was appointed the Military Governor of Kherson and Odessa, the commander-in-chief of the Bug and Black Sea Cossacks, and the Governor of Yekaterinoslav, Kherson, and Crimea.
During the 19th century, the village was invaded by Cossacks in 1814 – 1815.
On the following day, his soldiers were disarmed by Mongolian militiamen, as well as Russian Cossacks of the consular convoy under command of Grigory Semyonov, future Ataman.
Thus he claimed the ancient Ukrainian Steppe cultures from Scythia, through Kievan Rus' to the Cossacks as part of the Ukrainian heritage.
Until 1920s, okrugs were administrative districts in Cossack hosts such as the Don's Cossacks.
For the purpose of defending the city and colonizing the region, The Russian government relocated the Cossacks from Ufa, Iset, Samara and other places and created the Orenburg non-regular corps in 1748.
It was established as a Nağaybäk Cossack settlement in 1842 and soon after was given its name to honor the Battle of Paris.
"Ogledalo", with the song "Kozaci" ("Cossacks"), also appeared on the Artistička radna akcija various artists compilation, featuring the second generation of New Wave and punk rock bands from Belgrade.
The Cossacks who lived in Zaporozhia were tasked in safeguarding the Russian Empire against the Crimean Khanate.
The Cossacks who formed the Shah's body-guard also joined the revolutionaries.
The agreements of the Yalta and Tehran Conferences, signed by President Roosevelt, Premier Joseph Stalin, and Prime Minister Churchill, determined the fates of the Cossacks who did not fight for the USSR, because many were POWs of the Nazis.
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In 1944, General Krasnov and other Cossack leaders had persuaded Hitler to allow Cossack troops, as well as civilians and non-combatant Cossacks to permanently settle in the sparsely settled Carnia, in the Italian Alps.
The Cossacks of the Zaporozhian Host (from 'beyond the rapids', za porohamy), inhabiting the lands around the lower Dnieper River in Ukraine, had defeated Ottoman Turkish forces in battle.
Samson ben Pesah Ostropoli (died July 15, 1648), was a Polish rabbi from Ostropol who was martyred at Polonnoye, Volhynia, during the Cossacks' Uprising.
The territory of what is now Sherbakulsky District was a part of the Kazakh Khanate until 1718, when, after the death of Tauke Khan, the khanate broke apart and Cossack units moving south from Russia occupied the area.
Gilyarovsky treasured his partly Cossack descent: as a young man, he posed for one of the Cossacks depicted on Repin's huge canvas Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks; he was also a model for Taras Bulba, whose figure is part of the Gogol Monument in Moscow.
He returned to his estates in 1649 but the massacre of Polish army by the Cossacks and Crimean Tatars at Batoh (Battle of Batih) in 1652 forced him to evacuate again, this time to his estates in Volhynia.
In 1658, after a part of the Cossack leadership under Ivan Vyhovsky switched the sides and allied themselves with the Poles, Baryatinsky defeated the hetman's brother Konstantin Vyhovsky near Vasylkiv.
The story is based on a historical event: when the Zaporizhian Sich was overwhelmed by the Russian army, the Zaporizhian Cossacks and their families headed across the Danube River to the apparently safe haven of the Ottoman Empire (this area is now part of Romania) and established the Danube Sich (see Zaporozhian Host: Russian rule).
Under the guidance of a starshyna Lyakh, behind Kalnyshevky's back a conspiracy was formed with a group of 50 Cossacks to go fishing in the river Inhul next to the Southern Bug in Ottoman provinces.