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Battle of Praga, the Glossary

The Battle of Praga or the Second Battle of Warsaw of 1794, also known in Russian and German as the storming of Praga (Штурм Праги) and in Polish as the defense of Praga (Obrona Pragi), was a Russian assault on Praga, the easternmost community of Warsaw, during the Kościuszko Uprising in 1794.^[1]

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1794 in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
1794 in the Russian Empire
18th century in Warsaw
Alexander Suvorov
Anti-Polish sentiment in Europe
Battles of the Kościuszko Uprising
Imperial Russian war crimes
Massacres committed by Russia
Massacres of Poles
Military history of Warsaw

Abatis

An abatis, abattis, or abbattis is a field fortification consisting of an obstacle formed (in the modern era) of the branches of trees laid in a row, with the sharpened tops directed outwards, towards the enemy.

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Aleksander Orłowski

Aleksander Orłowski (9 March 1777 – 13 March 1832) was a Polish painter and sketch artist, and a pioneer of lithography in the Russian Empire.

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn (11 December 1918 – 3 August 2008) was a Russian author and Soviet dissident who helped to raise global awareness of political repression in the Soviet Union, especially the Gulag prison system.

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Aleksey Yermolov

Aleksey Petrovich Yermolov (p; &ndash) was a Russian general of the 19th century who commanded Russian troops in the Caucasian War.

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Alexander Petrushevsky

Alexander Fomich Petrushevsky (Aleksandr Fomich Petrushevskiy; pre-1918 Russian orthography: Александръ Ѳомичъ Петрушевскій) was a Russian lieutenant-general and a well-known biographer of Suvorov.

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Alexander Pushkin

Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin was a Russian poet, playwright, and novelist of the Romantic era.

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Alexander Suvorov

Count Alexander Vasilyevich Suvorov-Rymniksky, Prince of Italy (Kni͡az' Italiyskiy graf Aleksandr Vasil'yevič Suvorov-Rymnikskiy), was a Russian general and military theorist in the service of the Russian Empire.

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Alexander Tormasov

Count Alexander Petrovich Tormasov (Russian: Граф Алекса́ндр Петро́вич Торма́сов; 22 August 1752 – 25 November 1819) was a Russian cavalry general prominent during the Napoleonic Wars.

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Baron

Baron is a rank of nobility or title of honour, often hereditary, in various European countries, either current or historical.

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Battle of Brest (1794)

The Battle of Brest (Brześć in Polish), also known as the Battle of Terespol, took place between Russian imperial forces and Polish rebels south-west of Brest (near the village of Terespol), present-day Belarus, on 19 September 1794. Battle of Praga and Battle of Brest (1794) are Alexander Suvorov.

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Battle of Kobyłka

The Battle of Kobyłka took place between the Russian Empire's armed forces under the leadership of Suvorov and Polish rebels under Stanisław Mokronowski north-east of Warsaw (at Kobyłka), on 26 October 1794.

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Battle of Krupczyce

The Battle of Krupczyce took place between the Russian Empire's armed forces under the command of Alexander Vasilyevich Suvorov and Kościuszko's Polish rebels under Karol Józef Sierakowski east of Brest (near the Krupczyce Abbey), present-day Belarus, on September 17, 1794.

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Battle of Maciejowice

The Battle of Maciejowice was fought on 10 October 1794, between Poland and the Russian Empire. Battle of Praga and Battle of Maciejowice are Alexander Suvorov and battles of the Kościuszko Uprising.

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Berek Joselewicz

Berek Joselewicz (17 September 1764 – 15 May 1809) was a Polish Jewish colonel of the Polish Army during the Kościuszko Uprising.

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Bombardment

A bombardment is an attack by artillery fire or by dropping bombs from aircraft on fortifications, combatants, or cities and buildings.

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Canister shot

Canister shot is a kind of anti-personnel artillery ammunition.

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Capitulation (surrender)

Capitulation (capitulum, a little head or division; capitulare, to treat upon terms) is an agreement in time of war for the surrender to a hostile armed force of a particular body of troops, a town or a territory.

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Catherine the Great

Catherine II (born Princess Sophie Augusta Frederica von Anhalt-Zerbst; 2 May 172917 November 1796), most commonly known as Catherine the Great, was the reigning empress of Russia from 1762 to 1796.

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Cavalier (fortification)

A cavalier is a fortification which is built within a larger fortification, and which is higher than the rest of the work.

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Constable & Robinson

Constable & Robinson Ltd. is an imprint of Little, Brown which publishes fiction and non-fiction books and ebooks.

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Cossacks

The Cossacks are a predominantly East Slavic Orthodox Christian people originating in the Pontic–Caspian steppe of eastern Ukraine and southern Russia.

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Cross "For the Capture of Praga"

The Cross "For the Capture of Praga" (also known as the Cross "For the Capture of Warsaw") was a Russian award, established by Empress Catherine the Great to recognise participants in the Battle of Praga, a suburb of Warsaw, during the Kościuszko Uprising.

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Crown of the Kingdom of Poland

The Crown of the Kingdom of Poland (Korona Królestwa Polskiego; Corona Regni Poloniae) was a political and legal idea formed in the 14th century, assuming unity, indivisibility and continuity of the state.

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Denis Davydov

Denis Vasilyevich Davydov (Дени́с Васи́льевич Давы́дов,; –) was a Russian soldier-poet of the Napoleonic Wars who invented the genre of hussar poetry, characterised by hedonism and bravado.

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Eastern Bloc

The Eastern Bloc, also known as the Communist Bloc (Combloc), the Socialist Bloc, and the Soviet Bloc, was the unofficial coalition of communist states of Central and Eastern Europe, Asia, Africa, and Latin America that were aligned with the Soviet Union and existed during the Cold War (1947–1991).

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Faubourg

"Faubourg" is an ancient French term historically equivalent to "fore-town" (now often termed suburb or banlieue).

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Field marshal

Field marshal (or field-marshal, abbreviated as FM) is the second most senior military rank, ordinarily senior to the general officer ranks, but junior to the rank of Generalissimo.

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Fortification

A fortification (also called a fort, fortress, fastness, or stronghold) is a military construction designed for the defense of territories in warfare, and is used to establish rule in a region during peacetime.

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Friedrich Christoph Schlosser

Friedrich Christoph Schlosser (17 November 1776 – 23 September 1861) was a German historian, Professor of History at the University of Heidelberg and a Privy Councillor in Prussia.

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Friedrich Wilhelm von Buxhoeveden

Friedrich Wilhelm Graf von Buxhoevden (Fyodor Fyodorovich Buksgevden; other spellings: Feodor Buxhoeveden, Buxhœwden, Buxhöwden; September 14, 1750 – August 23, 1811) was a Russian general of the infantry and government official.

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Front (military formation)

A front (front) is a type of military formation that originated in the Russian Empire, and has been used by the Polish Army, the Red Army, the Soviet Army, and Turkey.

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Gaston Bodart

Gaston Bodart (1867–1940) was a military historian, statistician, and government official.

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Gavrila Derzhavin

Gavriil (Gavrila) Romanovich Derzhavin (a; 14 July 1743 – 20 July 1816) was one of the most highly esteemed Russian poets before Alexander Pushkin, as well as a statesman.

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Gazeta Wyborcza

(The Electoral Gazette in English) is a Polish nationwide daily newspaper based in Warsaw, Poland.

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Great Soviet Encyclopedia

The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (GSE;, BSE) is the largest Soviet Russian-language encyclopedia, published in the Soviet Union from 1926 to 1990.

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Grenadier

A grenadier (derived from the word grenade) was historically an assault-specialist soldier who threw hand grenades in siege operation battles.

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Holt McDougal

Holt McDougal is an American publishing company, a division of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, that specializes in textbooks for use in high schools.

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Irregular military

Irregular military is any non-standard military component that is distinct from a country's national armed forces.

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Isabel de Madariaga

Isabel Margaret de Madariaga (27 August 1919 – 16 June 2014) was a British historian who specialised on Russia in the 18th century and Catherine the Great.

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Ivan Fersen

Baron, Graf Hans Heinrich von Fersen or Ivan Yevstafyevich Fersen (Ivan Yevstaf'yevič Ferzen) was a Russian military commander and general of the infantry from the nobility of what was then Russia's Livonia.

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Jakub Jasiński

Jakub Krzysztof Jasiński (Jokūbas Kristupas Jasinskis) of Rawicz Clan (24 July 1761 – 4 November 1794) was a Polish general, and poet of Enlightenment.

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Jan Jerzy Giessler

Jan Jerzy Giessler of Złotorzek (his surname also rendered as Gizler, Giesler or Gisiler; late 18th century) was a Polish military officer.

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Janusz Tazbir

Janusz Tazbir (August 5, 1927 – May 3, 2016) was a Polish historian, specializing in the culture and religion of Poland in the 16th and 17th centuries.

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Jäger (infantry)

Jäger (hunter; jäger) is a German military term referring to specific light infantry units.

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Józef Zajączek

Prince Józef Zajączek (1 November 1752 – 28 August 1826) was a Polish general and politician.

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Jews

The Jews (יְהוּדִים) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites of the ancient Near East, and whose traditional religion is Judaism.

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Kościuszko Uprising

The Kościuszko Uprising, also known as the Polish Uprising of 1794, Second Polish War, Polish Campaign of 1794, and the Polish Revolution of 1794, was an uprising against the Russian and Prussian influence on Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, led by Tadeusz Kościuszko in Poland-Lithuania and the Prussian partition in 1794. Battle of Praga and Kościuszko Uprising are 1794 in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.

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Kobyłka

Kobyłka is a town of almost 22,000 inhabitants in Poland within the Warsaw metropolitan area, located right outside of the Warsaw, near Wołomin in the Wołomin County in the Masovian Voivodeship.

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Kyiv

Kyiv (also Kiev) is the capital and most populous city of Ukraine.

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Las, Warsaw

Las is a subdistrict of Wawer, in south-east Warsaw, with a population of over 2,500 inhabitants.

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Lieven

The House of Lieven (Līveni; Ливен; (von) Liewen.) is one of the oldest and most aristocratic families of Baltic German and Nordic origin.

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Light cavalry

Light cavalry comprised lightly armed and armored cavalry troops mounted on fast horses, as opposed to heavy cavalry, where the mounted riders (and sometimes the warhorses) were heavily armored.

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Limbers and caissons

A limber is a two-wheeled cart designed to support the trail of an artillery piece, or the stock of a field carriage such as a caisson or traveling forge, allowing it to be towed.

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List of massacres in Poland

The following is a list of massacres that have occurred in both historic and modern day areas of Poland (numbers may be approximate). Battle of Praga and list of massacres in Poland are massacres in Poland.

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Lyon Blease

Prof.

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Marc Ferro

Marc Ferro (24 December 1924 – 21 April 2021) was a French historian.

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Massacre

A massacre is an event of killing people who are not engaged in hostilities or are defenseless.

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Menagerie

A menagerie is a collection of captive animals, frequently exotic, kept for display; or the place where such a collection is kept, a precursor to the modern zoo or zoological garden.

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Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly

Prince Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly (baptised –) was a Russian Field Marshal who figured prominently in the Napoleonic Wars.

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Mikhail Glinka

Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka (Михаилъ Ивановичъ Глинка.|Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka|mʲɪxɐˈil‿ɨˈvanəvʲɪdʑ‿ˈɡlʲinkə|Ru-Mikhail-Ivanovich-Glinka.ogg) was the first Russian composer to gain wide recognition within his own country and is often regarded as the fountainhead of Russian classical music.

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Mikhail Kheraskov

Mikhail Matveyevich Kheraskov (Михаи́л Матве́евич Хера́сков; –) was a Russian poet and playwright.

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Military camp

A military camp or bivouac is a semi-permanent military base, for the lodging of an army.

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Military doctrine

Military doctrine is the expression of how military forces contribute to campaigns, major operations, battles, and engagements.

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Military reserve

A military reserve, active reserve, reserve formation, or simply reserve, is a group of military personnel or units that is initially not committed to a battle by its commander, so that it remains available to address unforeseen situations or exploit sudden opportunities.

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Militia

A militia is generally an army or some other fighting organization of non-professional or part-time soldiers; citizens of a country, or subjects of a state, who may perform military service during a time of need, as opposed to a professional force of regular, full-time military personnel; or, historically, to members of a warrior-nobility class (e.g.

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Morale

Morale is the capacity of a group's members to maintain belief in an institution or goal, particularly in the face of opposition or hardship.

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Muster (military)

In military organization, the term muster is the process or event of accounting for members in a military unit.

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Norman Davies

Ivor Norman Richard Davies (born 8 June 1939) is a British and Polish historian, known for his publications on the history of Europe, Poland and the United Kingdom.

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November Uprising

The November Uprising (1830–31), also known as the Polish–Russian War 1830–31 or the Cadet Revolution, was an armed rebellion in the heartland of partitioned Poland against the Russian Empire.

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Okuniew

Okuniew is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Halinów, within Mińsk County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland.

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Old Style and New Style dates

Old Style (O.S.) and New Style (N.S.) indicate dating systems before and after a calendar change, respectively.

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Order of battle

In modern use, the order of battle of an armed force participating in a military operation or campaign shows the hierarchical organization, command structure, strength, disposition of personnel, and equipment of units and formations of the armed force.

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Outpost (military)

A military outpost is detachment of troops stationed at a distance from the main force or formation, usually at a station in a remote or sparsely populated location, positioned to stand guard against unauthorized intrusions and surprise attacks, serving as the first line of defense.

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Pavel Potemkin

Count Pavel Sergeevich Potemkin, sometimes spelled Potyomkin or Potiomkin (Па́вел Серге́евич Потёмкин; 1743–1796) was a Russian statesman, soldier, and writer.

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Peter Wittgenstein

Louis Adolf Peter, 1st Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Ludwigsburg-Berleburg (Ludwig Adolf Peter Fürst zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg; Pëtr Christianovič Vitgenštejn; Pyotr Christianovitch Wittgenstein; – 11 June 1843), better known as Peter Wittgenstein in English, was a prince of the German dynasty of Sayn-Wittgenstein and field marshal in the Imperial Russian Army during the Napoleonic Wars.

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Picket (military)

A picket (archaically, picquet) is a soldier, or small unit of soldiers, placed on a defensive line forward of a friendly position to provide timely warning and screening against an enemy advance.

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Polesia

Polesia, Polissia, Polesie, or Polesye is a natural (geographic) and historical region in Eastern Europe within the bigger East European Plain, including part of eastern Poland and the Belarus–Ukraine border region.

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Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth

Poland–Lithuania, formally known as the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and also referred to as the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth or the First Polish Republic, was a bi-confederal state, sometimes called a federation, of Poland and Lithuania ruled by a common monarch in real union, who was both King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania.

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Polish–Russian War (1609–1618)

The Polish–Russian War was a conflict fought between the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Tsardom of Russia from 1609 to 1618.

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Praga

Praga is a district of Warsaw, Poland.

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Prime major

The prime major was the staff officer rank of the Russian Life Guards and the Imperial Russian Army of the 18th century.

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Prisoner of war

A prisoner of war (POW) is a person who is held captive by a belligerent power during or immediately after an armed conflict.

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Propaganda in the Soviet Union

Propaganda in the Soviet Union was the practice of state-directed communication aimed at promoting class conflict, proletarian internationalism, the goals of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and the party itself.

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Pyotr Bagration

Prince Pyotr Ivanovich Bagration (10 July 1765 – 24 September 1812) was a Russian general and prince of Georgian origin, prominent during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.

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Pyotr Chaadayev

Pyotr or Petr Yakovlevich Chaadayev (Пётр Я́ковлевич Чаада́ев; also spelled Chaadaev, or Čaadajev; 7 June 1794 – 26 April 1856) was a Russian philosopher.

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Pyotr Rumyantsev

Count Pyotr Alexandrovich Rumyantsev-Zadunaisky (Пётр Александрович Румянцев-Задунайский; –) was one of the foremost Russian generals of the 18th century, and is widely considered to be one of Russia's greatest military leaders, and one of the greatest military commanders in military history.

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Rampart (fortification)

The multiple ramparts of the British Camp hillfort in Herefordshire In fortification architecture, a rampart is a length of embankment or wall forming part of the defensive boundary of a castle, hillfort, settlement or other fortified site.

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Reconnaissance

In military operations, military reconnaissance or scouting is the exploration of an area by military forces to obtain information about enemy forces, the terrain, and civil activities in the area of operations.

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Regular army

A regular army is the official army of a state or country (the official armed forces), contrasting with irregular forces, such as volunteer irregular militias, private armies, mercenaries, etc.

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Revolutions of 1989

The Revolutions of 1989, also known as the Fall of Communism, were a revolutionary wave of liberal democracy movements that resulted in the collapse of most Marxist–Leninist governments in the Eastern Bloc and other parts of the world.

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Russian Empire

The Russian Empire was a vast empire that spanned most of northern Eurasia from its proclamation in November 1721 until its dissolution in March 1917.

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Russo-Turkish War (1768–1774)

The Russo-Turkish War of 1768–1774 was a major armed conflict that saw Russian arms largely victorious against the Ottoman Empire.

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Scythemen

Scythemen, also known as scythe-bearers is the term for soldiers (often peasants and townspeople) armed with war scythes.

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Second major (rank)

The second major was the junior staff officer rank in the Imperial Russian Army of the Russian Armed Forces of the imperial period of time, in the 18th century, and also the person wearing this rank.

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Siege

A siege (lit) is a military blockade of a city, or fortress, with the intent of conquering by attrition, or by well-prepared assault.

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Siege of Izmail

The siege of Izmail or Ismail / Ishmael / İzmail (İzmail Kuşatması), also called the storming of Izmail (Штурм Измаила), was a military action fought in 1790 on the Black Sea during the Russo-Turkish War (1787–1792) and simultaneously the Austro-Turkish War (1788–91). Battle of Praga and siege of Izmail are Alexander Suvorov.

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Taboo

A taboo, also spelled tabu, is a social group's ban, prohibition, or avoidance of something (usually an utterance or behavior) based on the group's sense that it is excessively repulsive, offensive, sacred, or allowed only for certain people.

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Tadeusz Kościuszko

Andrzej Tadeusz Bonawentura Kościuszko (Andrew Thaddeus Bonaventure Kosciuszko; 4 or 12 February 174615 October 1817) was a Polish military engineer, statesman, and military leader who then became a national hero in Poland, the United States, Lithuania and Belarus.

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Textbook

A textbook is a book containing a comprehensive compilation of content in a branch of study with the intention of explaining it.

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Thaddeus Bulgarin

Thaddeus Bulgarin (lit; &ndash), born Jan Tadeusz Krzysztof Bułharyn, was a Russian writer, journalist and publisher of Polish ancestry.

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Tomasz Wawrzecki

Tomasz Antoni Wawrzecki (1753–1816) was a distinguished Polish-Lithuanian politician and military commander.

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Trench warfare

Trench warfare is a type of land warfare using occupied lines largely comprising military trenches, in which combatants are well-protected from the enemy's small arms fire and are substantially sheltered from artillery.

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Trou de loup

In medieval fortification, a trou de loup (French for "wolf hole"; plural trous de loup, also commonly referred to as a tiger pit in the East) was a type of booby trap or defensive obstacle.

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Vasily Zhukovsky

Vasily Andreyevich Zhukovsky (Васи́лий Андре́евич Жуко́вский; –) was the foremost Russian poet of the 1810s and a leading figure in Russian literature in the first half of the 19th century.

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Vilnius

Vilnius, previously known in English as Vilna, is the capital of and largest city in Lithuania and the second-most-populous city in the Baltic states.

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Vistula

The Vistula (Wisła,, Weichsel) is the longest river in Poland and the ninth-longest in Europe, at in length.

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Wagon fort

A wagon fort, wagon fortress, wagenburg or corral, often referred to as circling the wagons, is a temporary fortification made of wagons arranged into a rectangle, circle, or other shape and possibly joined with each other to produce an improvised military camp.

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Warsaw

Warsaw, officially the Capital City of Warsaw, is the capital and largest city of Poland.

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Warsaw Uprising (1794)

The Warsaw Uprising of 1794 or Warsaw Insurrection (insurekcja warszawska) was an armed insurrection by the people of Warsaw early in the Kościuszko Uprising. Battle of Praga and Warsaw Uprising (1794) are 18th century in Warsaw, battles of the Kościuszko Uprising and military history of Warsaw.

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