Rákóczi, with the Commonwealth on the brink…
January 1657 CE
Rákóczi, with the Commonwealth on the brink of collapse, and without the prior approval of Transylvania's Diet or the Porte, enters the war in January 1657, crossing into the Commonwealth with a force of twenty-five thousand men who break the Polish siege of Kraków before they meet with Charles X Gustav, who had leads a Swedish-Brandenburgian army southwards.
The Commonwealth, under blows from all sides, is barely surviving.
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People
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Brandenburg, (Hohenzollern) Margravate of
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Crimean Khanate
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Ottoman Empire
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Cossacks, Zaporozhian
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Sweden, (second) Kingdom of
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Denmark-Norway, Kingdom of
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Transylvania (Ottoman vassal), Principality of
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Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Commonwealth of the Two Nations)
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Prussia, Royal (Polish province)
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Netherlands, United Provinces of the (Dutch Republic)
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Habsburg Monarchy, or Empire
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