Their very name made people flee villages and magnates flee their courts. The king sent them out like a private army of mercenaries, and he didn't always have the means to pay, but they had no problem with that. Today, let's talk about the Lisowczycy, from beginning to end, without sugarcoating, without unnecessary patriotism. Just as it was.

The fastest cavalry in 17th-century Europe. Without pay, without baggage, without scruples. They saved Vienna sixty years before Sobieski, fought at Biała Góra and Chocim, and burned everything along the way, including their own country.

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Fragments from the film Poles and Horses - Lisowczycy - 1993 were used.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY:
W. Dembołęcki, Memoirs of the Lissowczycy, or the Advantages of the Polish Elears

M. Dzieduszycki, A Brief Sketch of the History and Affairs of the Lisowczycy,
H. Wisner, Lisowczycy, Warsaw 1976

Lisowczycy. Plunderers of Europe, Bellona 2013

W. Magnuszewski, From the History of the Polish Elears

Stanisław Stroynowski — a Lisów Zagończyk, leader and legislator