Skład i liczebność wojska litewskiego podczas wojny z Turcją w latach 1690–1691 na podstawie akt instytucji skarbowo-wojskowych z lat 1691–1692
Structure and Strength of the Lithuanian Army during the War with the Ottoman Empire in 1690 –1691: An Analysis Based on the Documents of Financial and Military Institutions from 1691–1692

Summary/Abstract: Previous research has established the structure of the Lithuanian army during thewars with the Ottoman Empire for the years 1673, 1675 –1676, and 1683–1686. How-ever, the specific composition and strength of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania’s army, asdetermined by the size of the standing army (Pol. komput) adopted by the Sejm in War-saw in 1690, remain unclear. The surviving documentation from the Vilnius Committee(8 January – 17 March 1691 and 13 February – 31 March 1692) and the Grodno Tribu-nal (15 September – 13 October 1691), i.e. institutions responsible for settling accountswith the army for its service during 1690–1691, enabled the identification of almost allthe troops and their structure. The primary source material includes declarations fromtax collectors regarding the allocation of funds from the 26 hearth taxes (Pol. podymne)passed by the Sejm. The objective of this article is to analyse this documentation to de-termine the composition of the Lithuanian army units in 1690–1691 and to present theirstructure. The research identified 77 out of at least 79 military units comprising the GrandDuchy of Lithuania’s forces at that time, including: five hussar cavalry units (Pol. chorą-giew), 23 armoured companion (Pol. pancerni) cavalry units, seven Reiter cavalry units,eight Tartar cavalry units, 15 dragoon squadrons and cavalry units, 12 German infantryunits, five Hungarian infantry units, one Janissary unit, and one Zaporozhian Cossackunit. Nearly 46 per-cent of this army consisted of military units serving the Sapieha fam-ily, indicating the significant influence of the political faction led by Vilnius Voivode andGrand Hetman of Lithuania Kazimierz Jan Sapieha.

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