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	Rotmistrz - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Rotmistrz (derived from German: Rittmeister) was a military rank in Poland from the 15th century to the mid-20th century.
		In earlier times it was a field-grade rank, with the Rotmistrz serving as the commander of an infantry (rota piechoty) or cavalry regiment (chorągiew jazdy).
		In the cavalry the rank continued until 1945 as a company-grade title.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rotmistrz (145 words)

	Polish Renaissance Warfare - Army Composition, Polish Hussars
		The men were individually well skilled in horsemanship and the use of their arms through a lifetime of practice and a major part of their training was to combine these individuals into a single unit.
		Other less widespread weapons include shields, whose use disappeared at the start of the 17th century and small numbers of bows and arquebuses or muskets were also carried.
		A popular weapon for the nobility were the war hammers or axes - nadziak, obuch and czekan, while the rotmistrz and other commanders would carry maces (buzdygan).
	www.jasinski.co.uk /wojna/comp/comp06.htm (1900 words)

	PNAF - Polish Nobility Commonweath Guild
		Rik was also a guest of the Order of Saint Stanislas, at their 78th Annual Investiture in Santa Anna County, California, on November 16, 2002, again, appearing in full Winged Hussar armor kit, representing the Polish Cavalry forces of the 16th-17th centuries.
		Rik's alter ago is "Rotmistrz Pan Ryszard Sulima-Suligowski.
		His fledgling group began with Rik and his girl friend, Tarrah Pauline McDonald, aka "Lady Tarrah." (whom he "liberated" from the Tatar/Turkish forces that "captured" her ambassadorial group, while traveling thru southern Poland).
	pnaf.us /rikfox.htm (1122 words)

	Witold Pilecki - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Pilecki was soon promoted to cavalry captain (rotmistrz) and joined a secret anti-communist organization, NIE ("NO"), formed as a secret organization within the Home Army itself with a goal to prepare resistance against a coming Soviet occupation.
		WiesÅaw Jan Wysocki, Rotmistrz Pilecki [Captain Pilecki], Pomost, 1994.
		Adam Cyra, WiesÅaw Jan Wysocki, Rotmistrz Witold Pilecki, Oficyna Wydawnicza VOLUMEN, 1997.
	enc.qba73.com /link-Witold_Pilecki (2071 words)

	Auschwitz Bulletin
		A video film on the life of former Auschwitz prisoners won an award in the competition.
		Rotmistrz Pilecki by Adam Cyra and Wieslaw Wysocki was co-published with Volumen.
		On the occasion of the anniversary the exhibition of publications issued by the Museum’s Publishing House, established in 1956, was staged.
	www.spectacle.org /1297/ausch.html (2772 words)

	Luh Draft
		They managed to save its left (west) bank beginning from Kalnica.
		After Matiasz III Bal's death, in 1598 the village fell to his son, a royal rotmistrz (cavalry captain), Samuel Bal.
		From the tax list of 1663, it's known that Luh was the property of Aleksander Bal at this time, grandson of Piotr Bal, who was the brother of Samuel.
	members.tripod.com /warholic/luh_draft.htm (1460 words)

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		An air raid was considered too risky, and Home Army reports on Nazi atrocities at Auschwitz were deemed to be gross exaggerations (Pilecki wrote: "During the first 3 years, at Auschwitz there perished 2 million people; in the next 2 years—3 million").
		Pilecki was soon promoted to cavalry captain (rotmistrz) and joined a secret anti-communist organization, NIE ("NO"), formed within the Home Army to prepare resistance against a coming Soviet occupation.
		When the Warsaw Uprising broke out on August 1, 1944, Pilecki volunteered to the Kedyw's Chrobry II group.
	www.angelfire.com /scifi2/rsolecki/witold_pilecki.html (1570 words)

	Newsletter -- Fall, AS XXXIX (2004)
		These were round and spherical (onion or even pear shaped), usually smooth and, due to the significance of the office of the holder, were extravagantly decorated with precious metals and gem stones.
		The Budzygan (boot ZEE gaan) mace was also used as a badge of office for the Rotmistrz (captain of a group of Polish Husaria).
		It was characterized by six to eight vanes around the shaft, of varying shapes - sometimes even leaf or eagle shaped.
	www.goldschp.net /SIG/slovo/news35.html (4770 words)

	Booman Tribune ~ A Progressive Community
		He was promoted to rotmistrz (cavalry captain) and joined a secret group preparing to fight the coming Soviet invasion.
		"Rotmistrz Pilecki" by Wieslaw Jan Wysocki is a biography of Pilecki written in Polish; I've not read it.
		Pilecki is said to have written an autobiography while living in Italy.
	www.boomantribune.com /story/2005/12/13/224424/80 (4968 words)

	Polonia Global Fund · Games
		Put a hedgehog or eight boxes of figs into this boat
		A mailman from Tczew, A Rotmistrz (old Polish - army rank) from Czchow.
		The following sentence contains all 32 characters of the Polish alphabet.
	konicki.com /blog3/category/games (660 words)

	The Life and Times of Jan Pirog, a Polish Soldier
		I already had a cross which is one grade lower (the Krzyz Walecznych), for Normandy, and I had another awarded in a place called Siddeburen in Holland."
		Pirog - Rotmistrz Pierwszej Dywizji Pancernej V.M. (Platoon Sergeant)
		He met Maria Dominik in Germany in a camp called Dalum.
	www.freedominmessiah.com /jan_pirog.html (2405 words)

	(Adventures in wartime Russia)
		On his head sat a four-cornered officer's hat with the burnished Polish eagle of our Legionnaires.
		He was a rotmistrz, a cavalry captain, and below the hem of the long overcoat I could see his shiny riding boots and spurs with jingling rowels.
		Polish cavalry officer at Kirov station tells about newly formed Polish Army in USSR
	info-poland.buffalo.edu /AT.html (7897 words)

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