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all night and lost a lot of their strength due to the severe cold. Whipped by the strong wind, they were barely able to resist, when the battle began in the morning. Hussein’s army was dispersed, and only a few survivors managed to escape across a pontoon bridge to the northern shore of the Dni- ester. But, when the bridge broke down under the weight of the horses, the rest of the army perished in the currents of the river. “This was really something, to see them die as they jumped off the steep rock into the Dniester...,” recalled John Florian Drobysz Tuszynski, a participant of this battle. 85 Hussein survived the crushing defeat, but, after his return to Constantinople, he received a silk rope from the Sultan, which meant that he was being ordered to commit sui- cide. At that time, Sobieski wrote to Andrew Olszowski, the Deputy Chancellor, that this battle was won by “an extraordinary courage and the extremely effective units of the husaria .” It should be men- tioned here that the Polish winged husaria were really excellent be- cause the wings attached to the soldiers’ armor both scared the enemy’s horses and protected the soldier himself. It was difficult for a Turk to ”capture such a soldier with a lariat when two such large objects, bristling with feathers, protruded above his head.” But the most important role in this battle was played by Sobieski, showing his exceptional talent as a strategist and the superiority of the tactics chosen by the Polish military leadership over that of their Turkish counterparts. 86 History of the Monastery at the Korabiew Forest Immediately after Bishop Swiecicki’s canonical visitation, Fr. Pa- pczynski intended to begin the construction of a retreat house. Since the Visitator only gave permission to build a chapel, it was necessary to obtain permission to build that house, too. For this reason, Fr. Stanislaus went to Warsaw on October 26, 1673, 87 where he had a copy of the document called Cessio Kraiewsciana made. The efforts to obtain the bishop’s decree lasted over seven months and, finally, 269 Foundation of a New Religious Order