- Pawluk Uprising
Pawluk Uprising of 1637 was a
Cossack uprising inLeft-bank Ukraine andZaporizhia headed byPavel Mikhnovych against thePolish-Lithuanian Commonwealth .The rebellion was sparked by several Cossacks expelled from the Cossack Registry. Mikhnovych ordered the captured commanders of the Registered Cossacks to be executed and issued a declaration, in which he proclaimed a fight against the "masters". Defeated by the forces of
Mikołaj Potocki in theBattle of Kumejki in1637 , he was brought toWarsaw , tried and executed. The remnants of his forces capitulated nearBorowica soon afterwards. He was succeeded in his command of Registered Cossacks by colonelIlyash Karaimovich .
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