A large flotilla was sent in pursuit of the Cossacks, which overtook them near the mouth of the Danube; The Cossacks entered into battle with her, killed many Turks, captured the commander of the flotilla, Pasha, and captured several ships, and sank and dispersed the rest. Having transported the richest booty to the Dnieper estuary on captured ships, the Cossacks transferred to canoes and seagulls, reloaded the booty, and burned the ships.
During the described campaigns on the eastern coast of the Crimea, the city of Kafa (the current 9th century) prospered: it was established as the main slave market; thousands of Christian plafniki, shackled in tzphii, were sold like cattle in the city’s trading areas; men were taken in rows to the galleys or for heavy work, beautiful women and women were bought by noble pashas into their harems as wives and concubines. Children were mercilessly torn from their mothers, husbands were separated from their wives, entire families were sold into different hands. Kafa saw a lot of grief and tears, for a long time the Cossacks sought to ruin this rotten oppressive place, and the hour finally came: in the spring of 1616, under the command of the famous hetman, the Zaporizhian troops
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The Cossacks went out to sea in the Dnfprovsky estuary and defeated the Turkish fleet, captured many galleys and up to a hundred canoes, then rounded the southern coast of the Crimea and stopped on Tuesday. view of Kafa. With the help of the Turkish Cossacks, for a long time. who lived in Kaf and went over to the side of the Cossacks, the Cossacks entered the city at night, set it on fire from all sides and massacred all the Turks. The luxurious city was burned and ravaged to the ground, thousands of slaves were freed and taken with them by the Cossacks. Sagaidachny and the Zaporozhye army were solemnly greeted by the clergy and a multitude of jubilant people. Rich booty and glory were the reward for the Cossacks for this campaign.
Not content with this, the Cossacks in the same year plundered the city of Trebizond and defeated Pasha Tsikala, sinking several of his galleys. Every year from the next 1617 to 1625, the Cossacks went to sea, appeared in the number of 10 thousand people and under the walls of the disturbed Constantinople, ravaged the entire European coast of Tursha in the Black Sea, burned the rich city of Varna, the Boseorsi lighthouse and several other cities and villages, several times They defeated the Turks in the battles of War and killed many of their people.
Almost every sea campaign, the Cossacks fought in conjunction with the Dnefirov Cossacks, but in 1625 and subsequent years, both the Tfm and others had to turn their forces against more dangerous enemies: these enemies were Polish gentlemen, striving to destroy the Russian people in Ukraine, i.e. the Orthodox faith and the Russian language and turn the free Cossacks into your servants, khlops. Since 1625, although the maritime campaigns continued, the situation was not so happy for the Cossacks.
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Union. Oppression of the people. Vozetaniya.
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Vanya Gine
Glory to Gina, Fatherland; There is no need to worry; Unchristenings are growing, Kozatsy and children are growing;
Kokhalotsya nevinčani; They dance without a priest; The Jews are forbidden to go to the circus!“
Shevchenko.
It has already been said that in 1569 the Poles, with the goal of completely enslaving Ukraine and Lithuania, achieved political success at the Lublin Sejm, i.e. uniting the Principality of Lithuania with Poland into one state; this was the first step towards introducing internal governance into Lithuania and Rus', the same as Poland.
With the announcement of the Lublin war, the lords began to move to Ukraine and little by little to spare the Russian people; however, this evil did not occur in the same way and not too much com usieshio in various localities of Ukraine: the lords met the first resistance in their beginnings in the persons of free inhabitants, the Cossacks, who, according to the approximate calculation of that time, amounted to 40 to 60 thousand families, accustomed to independence and able to fend for themselves; of the rest of the inhabitants of Ukraine - townspeople and the Polish government, i.e. the peasantry - it was easiest to enslave the latter.