See also:JAN [called See also:MAGNUS] See also:TARNOWSKI (1488-1561)
, See also:Polish See also:general
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After a careful See also:education beneath the See also:eye of an excellent See also:mother and subsequently at the See also:palace of See also:Matthew Drzewicki, See also:bishop of See also:Przemysl, he occupied a conspicuous position at See also:court in the reigns of See also:John See also:Albert, See also:Alexander and See also:Sigismund I
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As See also:early as 1509 See also:Tarnowski brilliantly distinguished himself in See also:Moldavia, and took a leading See also:part in the See also:great victories of Wisniowiec (1512) and Orsza (1514), where he commanded the See also:flower of the Polish See also:chivalry
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To See also:complete his education he then travelled in See also:Palestine, See also:Syria, See also:Arabia, See also:Egypt, and See also:northern and western See also:Europe
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While in See also:Portugal he received from See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King Emanuel the See also:chief command in the See also:war against the See also:Moors, and See also:Charles V. rewarded his services in the See also:Christian cause with the dignity of a See also:count of the See also:Empire
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Indeed, the See also:emperor had such a high regard for Tarnowski that he offered him the leadership of all the forces of Europe in a See also:grand expedition against the See also:Turks
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On the See also:death of See also:Nicholas Firlej in 1526 Tarnowski became grand See also:hetman of the See also:crown, or Polish See also:commander-in-chief, and in that capacity won his greatest victory at Obertyn (22nd See also:August 1531) over the Moldavians, Turks and See also:Tatars, for which he received a See also:hand-some See also:subsidy and an See also:ovation similar to that of an See also:ancient See also:Roman triumphator
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Heartily attached to King Sigismund I. and his son Sigismund See also:Augustus, Tarnowski took the royal See also:side during the so-called Kokosaa wojna, or Poultry War, of 1537;
TARNOWSKI
greatly increased the mobility and the See also:security of the armed camps within which the Poles had so often to encounter the Tatars
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He also improved discipline by adding to the authority of the commanders
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His principles are set forth in his Consilium Rationis Bellicae (best edition, See also:Posen, 1879), which was See also:long regarded as authoritative
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As an See also:administrator he did much to populate the vast See also:south-eastern See also:steppes of See also:Poland
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See Stanislaw Orzechowski, See also:Life and Death of See also:Jan Tarnowski (Pol.) (See also:Cracow, 1855)
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