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Khmelnitsky, Bohdan
(c. &#x;), hetman of the Zaporozhian Cossack Host (&#x;) and founder of the Hetmanate (Cossack state).
Born into a family of Orthodox petty gentry, Khmelnitsky fought at the Battle of Cecora () and was taken prisoner to Istanbul for two years.
Enrolled as a registered Cossack, he was a military chancellor during the Cossack revolts of and In he took part in a Cossack delegation to King Wladyslaw IV, who sought to win the Cossacks over to his secret plans for a war against the Ottomans.
Bohdan khmelnytsky biography of barack obama
In a magnate's servitor attacked Khmelnitsky's estate. Khmelnitsky found no redress. Arrested in November , he escaped and fled to the traditional Cossack stronghold, or Sich, where he was proclaimed hetman in February He received support from the Crimean Khanate, and in May Khmelnitsky defeated the Polish armies sent against him.
The king died in that month, throwing the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, an elective monarchy, into crisis.
Throughout , as an uprising raged in U