Polish Cavalry Undefeated? | The Polish-Swedish Wars 1600-1611

Check out Daily Pnut and get bite sized world news: In July 1599 Sigismund III, King of Poland, Grand Duke of Lithuania and King of Sweden was deposed from the Swedish throne. The man who had conspired against him was his uncle Charles, the Duke of Södermanland. He was to become Charles IX of Sweden in 1604. Sigismund, however, had not yet given up his birthright. He tried to establish a blockade on Sweden and made plans to invade Swedish territory in Estonia, which he formally claimed for the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in February 1600. Now, war was inevitable. For the next eleven years the armies of the Commonwealth and Sweden would battle for Livonia. Patreon (thank you): Paypal (thank you): Twitter: