Smolensk War
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The <entity_5> (<entity_4>–1634) was a <entity_7> fought between the <entity_0> and <entity_8>. Hostilities began in <entity_4> when Russian forces tried to capture the city of <entity_6>. <entity_8> accepted Polish–Lithuanian control over the <entity_6> region, which lasted for another 20 years. Aware that <entity_8> was preparing for war, in the spring of <entity_4> the Sejm (Polish–Lithuanian parliament) increased the army by recruiting an additional 4,500 men; by mid-<entity_4> the deputy voivode (podwojewoda) of <entity_6>, Samuel Drucki-Sokoliński, had about 500 volunteers from pospolite ruszenie and 2,500 regular army soldiers and Cossacks. <entity_8>'s aim was to gain control of <entity_6>, which it had ceded to the Commonwealth in 1618 at the Truce of Deulino, ending the last Russo-Polish War. The Russian army that crossed the Lithuanian border in early <entity_4> had been carefully prepared and was under the experienced command of Mikhail Borisovich Shein, who had previously defended <entity_6> against the Poles during the 1609–1611 siege. Several towns and castles fell as the Russians advanced, and on <entity_4> (the same day that the historic town of Dorogobuzh was taken), Shein moved to begin the siege of <entity_6>. Commonwealth forces in <entity_6> were composed of the <entity_6> garrison (about 1,600 men with 170 artillery pieces under the command of the <entity_3>, <entity_1>), strengthened by the local nobility, which formed a pospolite ruszenie force of about 1,500 strong. Russian heavy artillery, mostly of Western manufacture, reached <entity_6> in <entity_4> with even heavier guns arriving the following March. Meanwhile, Field Hetman of Lithuania and Voivode of Vilnius, <entity_2>, and Voivode Gosiewski established a camp about 30 kilometres (18.6 mi) from <entity_6>, moving from Orsha to Bajów and later, Krasne. Russian forces captured several significant locations during their advance in <entity_4>, but Nagielski speculates that the delay in the arrival of their main force and artillery at <entity_6> caused by this dilution of effort may have cost them the siege and consequently the war. Even before the end of 1633, Tsar Michael of <entity_8> was considering how best to end the <entity_7>. The Battle of <entity_6> is commemorated on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Warsaw, with the inscription "SMOLENSK 18 X <entity_4>–25 II 1634".
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