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How was this a Swedish victory when Poland annaxed more territory
No one says that this war was a Swedish victory.
This article should be rewritten in a more neutral language. The constant praise of Polish military successes in ornate language is annoying:
Chodkiewicz, despite inadequate supplies and little support from the Commonwealth Sejm (parliament) and King Sigismund III Vasa, brilliantly distinguished himself, capturing fortress after fortress and repulsing the duke of Södermanland ...
... often winning against superior odds, like at Weissenstein where he had only 2300 men and defeated a 6,000 man Swedish force; Chodkiewicz wrote in his memoirs this was a decisive battle and one of his greatest victories, with Polish-Lithuanian losses 81 dead, 100 wounded and Swedish losses approaching half of their army ...
... the Swedes were repeatedly defeated again and again in the open field. First the Poles attacked Swedish cavalry, after which they usually attacked demoralised Swedish infantry which was unable to retreat at all, and usually annihilated whole formations of this infantry.
The Swedish formations broke completely, the King himself fleeing, barely escaping back to his flotilla off the coast. Thus Chodkiewicz with barely 4000 hussars defeated a Swedish army of 8,000 infantry and 2,000 cavalry; for which feat he received letters of congratulation from the pope, all the Catholic potentates of Europe, and even from the sultan of Turkey and the shah of Persia.
Wikipedia should not be the place for hagiographic appraisal of history. -- 87.123.124.58 ( talk) 15:18, 22 November 2009 (UTC)
This war was a Polish defensive war (Sweden was an invader, Poland defended its territory). Considering that Poland didn't lost any territories during that war (which was the aim of Swedish invasion forces), I think we can agree that this war can be called a Polish victory.
Peter558 ( talk) 01:07, 25 February 2011 (UTC)
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How was this a Swedish victory when Poland annaxed more territory
No one says that this war was a Swedish victory.
This article should be rewritten in a more neutral language. The constant praise of Polish military successes in ornate language is annoying:
Chodkiewicz, despite inadequate supplies and little support from the Commonwealth Sejm (parliament) and King Sigismund III Vasa, brilliantly distinguished himself, capturing fortress after fortress and repulsing the duke of Södermanland ...
... often winning against superior odds, like at Weissenstein where he had only 2300 men and defeated a 6,000 man Swedish force; Chodkiewicz wrote in his memoirs this was a decisive battle and one of his greatest victories, with Polish-Lithuanian losses 81 dead, 100 wounded and Swedish losses approaching half of their army ...
... the Swedes were repeatedly defeated again and again in the open field. First the Poles attacked Swedish cavalry, after which they usually attacked demoralised Swedish infantry which was unable to retreat at all, and usually annihilated whole formations of this infantry.
The Swedish formations broke completely, the King himself fleeing, barely escaping back to his flotilla off the coast. Thus Chodkiewicz with barely 4000 hussars defeated a Swedish army of 8,000 infantry and 2,000 cavalry; for which feat he received letters of congratulation from the pope, all the Catholic potentates of Europe, and even from the sultan of Turkey and the shah of Persia.
Wikipedia should not be the place for hagiographic appraisal of history. -- 87.123.124.58 ( talk) 15:18, 22 November 2009 (UTC)
This war was a Polish defensive war (Sweden was an invader, Poland defended its territory). Considering that Poland didn't lost any territories during that war (which was the aim of Swedish invasion forces), I think we can agree that this war can be called a Polish victory.
Peter558 ( talk) 01:07, 25 February 2011 (UTC)