1514 by Country - 1514 in Lithuania, 1514 in Norway, Battle of Orsha (Paperback)

Chapters: 1514 in Lithuania, 1514 in Norway, Battle of Orsha. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 18. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Battle of Orsha took place September 8, 1514, fought by the allied forces of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and Kingdom of Poland (less than 30,000 troops), under the command of Hetman Konstanty Ostrogski, and the army of Grand Duchy of Moscow under Konyushy (, "Tsar's Equerry") Ivan Chelyadnin ( ) and Kniaz (Prince) Mikhail Golitsin ( ). The Battle of Orsha was part of a long series of Russo-Lithuanian Wars conducted by Russian rulers striving to gather all the lands of former Kievan Rus under their rule. The much smaller army of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and Poland defeated the Russian forces, capturing their camp and commander. At the end of 1512, Grand Duchy of Moscow began a new war for Grand Duchy of Lithuania's Ruthenian lands of present-day Belarus and Ukraine. Albrecht I Hohenzollern von Brandenburg-Ansbach, Grand Master of the Teutonic Order rebelled and refused to give a vassal pledge to Sigismund I the Old. Albert I was supported by Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor. The fortress of Smolensk was then the easternmost outpost of the Grand Duchy and one of the most important strongholds guarding it from the east. It repelled several Russian attacks, but in July 1514 a Russian army besieged and finally captured it. Spurred on by this initial success, the Grand Prince of Moscow Vasili III ordered his forces farther into Belarus, occupying the towns of Krichev, Mstislavl and Dubrovna. Russo-Polish war, image from Jacob Piso Die Schlacht von dem Kunig von Poln und mit dem Moscowiter, 1514Meanwhile Sigismund the Old gathered some 35,000 troops for war with the eastern neighbor. This army was inferior in numbers, but comprised mostly of well-tra...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=964136