Meaning of esaul | Babel Free

Definitions

The head of a group or unit of Cossacks.

historical

Equivalents

Examples

“Some four months after this event, a smart Yesaul, at the head of a party of Kozaks, on the high road to Nishnei Novogorod perceives a poor fellow resting himself upon a bank.”

“‘There is no order in the Ukraine: the colonels and the esauls quarrel like dogs: there is no chief over them all.’”

“When Hervey had first learned what was the strength of the garrison, he asked the esaul, the Cossacks' captain. why there was only a squadron (sotnia) of them, two hundred lances […].”

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