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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Kraków Krakow Poland View →

People
Charles X Gustav of Sweden View → Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg View → György II Rákóczi View → John II Casimir Vasa View →

Groups
Brandenburg, (Hohenzollern) Margravate of View → Crimean Khanate View → Ottoman Empire View → Cossacks, Zaporozhian View → Sweden, (second) Kingdom of View → Denmark-Norway, Kingdom of View → Transylvania (Ottoman vassal), Principality of View → Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Commonwealth of the Two Nations) View → Prussia, Royal (Polish province) View → Netherlands, United Provinces of the (Dutch Republic) View → Habsburg Monarchy, or Empire View →

Topics
Russo-Polish War of 1654-67 View → Northern War, Second View → Deluge, the (Poland) View → Russo-Swedish War of 1656-58 View → Dano-Swedish War 1657-1658 View →

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Weapons View →

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Commerce View → Labor and Service View → Conflict View → Faith View → Government View → Technology View →

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