. A thousand years of Russian history. (N 13 CD 0 81^ « > THE COSSACKS OF THE DNIEPER 343 while simultaneously an army was to hold itself in readinessto strike. The envoy failed in his mission, and the great armyof two hundred and thirty thousand men, which had beenconcentrated on the frontier, succumbed one night to panicand fled. The whole camp fell into the hands of Hmielnitski,who now invested Lemberg, from which he levied sevenhundred thousand gulden. He then attacked Zamose, and,while he was besieging that fortress, his delegates broughtsufficient pressure to bear upon the Diet to cau
. A thousand years of Russian history. (N 13 CD 0 81^ « > THE COSSACKS OF THE DNIEPER 343 while simultaneously an army was to hold itself in readinessto strike. The envoy failed in his mission, and the great armyof two hundred and thirty thousand men, which had beenconcentrated on the frontier, succumbed one night to panicand fled. The whole camp fell into the hands of Hmielnitski,who now invested Lemberg, from which he levied sevenhundred thousand gulden. He then attacked Zamose, and,while he was besieging that fortress, his delegates broughtsufficient pressure to bear upon the Diet to cause the electionof the candidate for the throne approved by the great Cossackleader. For, although Poland was a republic, her elected presidentbore the royal title of king. For the sake of the new king,from whom he expected a more peaceful and Just rule,Hmielnitski stayed the fire. With pomp and triumph hereturned to Kiev, where embassies from the Sultan, the Tsar,and the Hospodar of Moldavia awaited him. War broke out again in 1649,
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