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Any mistakes made during this video are entirely my own.

This is a video essay on the army of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth during the Great Northern War. This video focuses on units, recruitment, organisation and the a basic overview of their performance.

Mistakes:
Not so much mistakes as placeholders:

For the Heavy Cavalry section the image used is of an Austrian cavalryman of the same period. This is still however, a very close depiction of what westernised Polish-Lithuanian heavy cavalry would look like.

In the artillery section the image used is of a Saxon 24.lbs cannon at Fortress Königstein. Augustus the Strong did supplement the Commonwealth with Saxon artillery, however I felt I must point out this particular image does show a Saxon cannon from the period, not a Commonwealth one.

Sources:
- Great Northern War Compendium
- Armies of the Great Northern War 1700-1720 Gabreile Esposito
- Charles XII And the Collapse of the Swedish Empire R. Nibet Bain
- The Great Northern War New Perspectives by the Danish Commission for Military History from The Royal Danish Defence College.

Picture Disclaimer: All images in this video presentation belong to their rightful owners.

Many pictures were taken from the Great Northern War Compendium and were created by the following:
- Darios Vieletz
- Dariusz T. Wielec
- Richard Knotel
- Marta Wrzodak
- Bronislaw Gembarzewski

The Saxon cannon was taken by:
@_kathigrafie on Instagram

The images of flags and banners was created by:
- Karina MacGill

The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth map is from:
- Heather Scott

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