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| | EARLY HISTORY OF POLAND |
 | | Moreover Casimir's difficulties were materially increased by the necessity of paying for Czech mercenaries, the pospolite ruszenie, or Polish militia, proving utterly useless at the very beginning of the war. |
 | | ¹ By the second peace of Thorn, Poland recovered the provinces of Pomerelia, Kulm and Michalów, with the blshopric of Ermeland, numerous cities and fortresses, including Marienburg, Elbing Danzig and Thorn. |
 | | The territory of the Knights was now reduced to Prussia proper embracing, roughly speaking, the district between the Baltic, the lower Vistula and the lower Niemen, with Königsberg as its capital. |
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