To Serenissimus such tribes as the Cossacks of the Don or those ex-bandits the Zaporogian Cossacks ( in whose islands along the lower Dnieper the Polish novelist Sienkiewicz would one day place With Fire And Sword ) were just elements for enforced resettlement in, say, Bessarabia, where, as `` the faithful of the Black Sea borders '', he could use their presence as bargaining points in the Czarina's territorial claims against Turkey.

Xiongnu, Tujue, Avars, Kipchaks, Mongols, Don Cossacks and the various Turkic peoples are also examples of the horse-mounted groups that managed to gain substantial successes in military conflicts with settled agrarian and urban societies, due to their strategic and tactical mobility.

On 19 November, a few weeks after the proclamation of soviet power in Petrograd, they escaped from their confinement ( eased by the fact that the jail was guarded by Kornilov's supporters ) and made their way to the Don region, which was controlled by the Don Cossacks.

Later, in 1670 – 71 the Don Cossacks led by Stenka Razin initiated a major uprising in the Volga Region, but the Tsar's troops were successful in defeating the rebels.

* November 29 – Don Cossacks declare the Don Republic, which lasts two weeks.

*** Don Cossacks

Don Cossacks under Stenka Razin even ravaged the Persian coasts.

On the east there is « Ukraine or the land of Don Cossacks, who are dependent from Muscovy ( Vkraina ouero Paese de Cossachi Tanaiti Soggetti al Moscouita )».

The Cossacks even formed short-lived independent states, the Ukrainian State, the Don Republic and the Kuban People's Republic.

It is known that Don Cossacks, in 1380, gave the icon of the Virgin Mary to the Dmitry Donskoy.

The Don Cossacks used the shashka, which also saw military and police use in the Russian Empire and early Soviet Union.

The Don Cossacks, who settled the fertile valley of the river in the 16th and 17th centuries, were named for the river.

On the morning of the battle at around 07: 30, patrols of Don Cossacks from Matvei Platov's pulk had discovered a ford across the Kolocha river, on the extreme Russian right ( northern ) flank.

At that time, the Russians had been dealing with a large rebellion of Don Cossacks, known as Bulavin Rebellion.

In 1798, Tsar Paul I recognized the Don Kalmyks as Don Cossacks.

Initially, this army was composed primarily of volunteers and Tsarist supporters but were later joined by the Cossacks ( including Don Kalmyks ), many of whom resisted the Bolshevik policy of de-Cossackization.

As Don Cossacks, the Don Kalmyks first fought under White army General Anton Denikin and then under his successor, General Pyotr Wrangel.

Because the Don Cossack Host to which they belonged was the main center of the White Movement and of Cossack resistance, the battles were fought on Cossack lands and was very disastrous for the Don Cossacks as villages and entire regions changed hands repeatedly in a fratricidal conflict in which both sides committed terrible atrocities.

The Don Cossacks, including the Don Kalmyks, experienced heavy military and civilian losses, either from the fighting itself or from starvation and disease induced by the war.

True, the pattern and flow of the drama have strong literary qualities that are a bit wearisome in the first half, before Don Quixote goes to the duke's court.

In the 20th century, theologians like Jürgen Moltmann, Hans Küng, John Robinson, Bishop David Jenkins, Don Cupitt and Bishop Jack Spong challenged traditional theological positions and understandings of the Bible ; following these developments some have suggested that passages have been mistranslated or that they do not refer to what we understand as " homosexuality.

Don Quixote interrupts when Cardenio suggests that his beloved may have become unfaithful after the formulaic stories of spurned lovers in Chivalric novels.

As Part Two begins, it is assumed that the literate classes of Spain have all read the first part of the history of Don Quixote and his squire.

Historically, Cervantes's work has been said to have “ smiled Spain ’ s chivalry away ”, suggesting that Don Quixote as a chivalric satire contributed to the demise of Spanish Chivalry.

With 33. 7 % salinity, it is also one of the world's saltiest bodies of water, though Lake Assal ( Djibouti ), Garabogazköl and some hypersaline lakes of the McMurdo Dry Valleys in Antarctica ( such as Don Juan Pond ) have reported higher salinities.

Don Daglow wrote an enhanced version of the program called Ecala on a PDP-10 mainframe computer at Pomona College in 1973 before writing what was possibly the second or third computer role-playing game, Dungeon ( 1975 ) ( The first was probably " dnd ", written on and for the PLATO system in 1974, and the second may have been Moria, written in 1975 ).

He states: " Had the Huns been unable to forge their swords and cast their arrow-heads, they never could have crossed the Don.

One angle where the two clubs did have something in common, however, lay in new Miami coach Don Shula.

The great Don Bradman once remarked to Grimmett that he must have forgotten how to bowl a leg break, as he bowled so many flippers.

Examples of this type of man would be Giacomo Casanova and Don Juan, who were both reputed to have had many libertine affairs with women.

In 1997, owner Carl Pohlad almost sold the Twins to North Carolina businessman Don Beaver, who would have moved the team to the Piedmont Triad area.

The important voyages of Robin Lee Graham, Eric Hiscock, Don Street and others have shown that, while not strictly racing, ocean voyaging carries with it an inherent sense of competition, especially that between man and the elements.

Historians have been unable to determine why such a strong fortress was built on the Don.

Both teams were unable to score on each of their next possessions, but on the period's final play, Reich threw a 40-yard touchdown pass to Bills receiver Don Beebe, despite Cowboy complaints that the touchdown should have been nullified because Reich, while scrambling to avoid the Cowboy rush, crossed the 40-yard line for what should have been ruled an illegal forward pass.

The player long considered to have had the best backhand of all time, Don Budge, had a powerful one-handed stroke in the 1930s and 1940s that imparted topspin onto the ball.

" The Word was re-uttered in 1996 by Don Webb in the more focused translation " I have come into being.

However, in the commentary in the American printing of the story, Don Rosa states that he was prevented from using Hortense because he would have had to explain why she had abandoned her family.

Don Rosa has suggested that Matilda McDuck could have married the well-known Disney character Ludwig von Drake.

The most prolific have included Don Pardo, Johnny Olson, John Harlan, Jay Stewart, Gene Wood and Johnny Gilbert.

The only actor to have his singing voice dubbed is Peter O ' Toole, who stars as Cervantes and Don Quixote.

George Templeton Strong noted in his diary: " People say the plot's immoral, but I don't see that it's so much worse than many others, not to speak of Don Giovanni, which as put on the stage is little but rampant lechery ", while the Evening Post critic wrote: " Those who have quietly sat through the glaring improprieties of Don Giovanni will hardly blush or frown at anything in La traviata.