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KONGSBERG

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 893 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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KONGSBERG , a See also:

mining See also:town of See also:Norway in Buskerud amt (See also:county), on the Laagen, 500 ft. above the See also:sea, and 61 m. W.S.W. 893 of See also:Christiania by See also:rail. Pop. (1900), 5585. With the exception See also:great See also:Jan See also:Chodkiewicz, whom he accompanied on his See also:Muscovite See also:campaigns, and under the equally great See also:Stanislaus See also:Zolkiewski, whose daughter See also:Catherine he married. On the See also:death of his first wife he wedded, in 1619, See also:Christina Lubomirska. In 1619 he took See also:part in the expedition against the See also:Turks which terminated so disastrously at Cecora, and after a valiant resistance was captured and sent to See also:Constantinople, where he remained a See also:close prisoner for three years. On his return he was appointed See also:commander of all the forces of the See also:Republic, and at the See also:head of an See also:army of 25,000 men routed 6o,000 See also:Tatars at Martynow, following up this success with fresh victories, for which he received the thanks of the See also:diet and the See also:palatinate of Sandomeria from the See also:king. In 1625 he was appointed See also:guardian of the See also:Ukraine against the Tatars, but in 1626 was transferred to See also:Prussia to check the victorious advance of Gustavus See also:Adolphus. See also:Swedish historians have too often ignored the fact that See also:Koniecpolski's See also:superior See also:strategy neutralized all the efforts of the Swedish king, whom he defeated again and again, notably at Homerstein (See also:April 1627) and at Trzciand (April 1629). But for the most part the fatal See also:parsimony of his See also:country compelled Koniecpolski to confine himself to the harassing See also:guerrilla warfare in which he was an See also:expert.

In 1632 he was appointed to the See also:

long vacant See also:post of See also:hetman wielki koronny, or commander in See also:chief of See also:Poland, and in that capacity routed the Tatars at Sasowy Rogi (April 1633) and at Paniawce (April and See also:October 1633), and the Turks, with terrific loss, at Abazd Basha. To keep the See also:Cossacks of the Ukraine in See also:order he also built the fortress of Kudak. As one of the largest proprietors in the Ukraine he suffered severely from Cossack depredations and offered many concessions to them. Only after years of conflict, however, did he succeed in reducing these unruly desperadoes to something like obedience. In 1644 he once more routed the Tatars at Ockmatow, and again in 1646 at See also:Brody. This was his last exploit, for he died the same See also:year, to the great grief of See also:Wladislaus IV., who had already concerted with him the See also:plan for a See also:campaign on a See also:grand See also:scale against the Turks, and relied principally upon the Grand Hetman for its success. Though less famous than his contemporaries Zolkiehwski and Chodkiewicz, Koniecpolski was fully their equal as a See also:general, and his inexorable severity made him an ideal See also:lord-marcher. See an unfinished See also:biography in the Tyg. Illus. of See also:Warsaw for 1863; Stanislaw Przylenski, Memorials of the Koniecpolskis (Pol.) (See also:Lemberg, 1842). (R. N.

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