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The Virginia Gazette
Richmond, Williamsburg, Richmond County, Virginia
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In Poland, on the eve of Cracow's capture, the Marshal of the Confederacy demanded 600 men or 80,000 florins from suburban Jews, who couldn't pay due to trade disruptions. Soldiers humiliated some elders, but Russians relieved them the next night. Russians also seized Confederates' cattle, selling oxen for a ducat and cows for a crown.
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On the eve of taking of Cracow the Marshal of the Confederacy demanded of the Jews, who inhabited the suburbs, to furnish him with 600 men; but upon their representing to him the impossibility of complying with his demand, he ordered them to pay 80,000 florins. To this they made answer that they had no money, owing to the interruption of their trade, and desired he would have a little patience; upon which he sent soldiers among them, who cut off the beards and hair of some of the oldest of them, threatening, unless they complied with the sum demanded within two days, to serve them all in the same manner, but the following night they were acquitted of the obligation by the Russians. The Confederates had got a great number of horned cattle in the neighbourhood, which the Russian troops seized, and the quantity was so considerable that an ox was sold for a ducat, and a cow for a crown.
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Cracow, Poland
Event Date
Aug. 24
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jews acquitted of payment by russians; russian troops seized confederates' cattle, selling oxen for a ducat and cows for a crown.
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On the eve of Cracow's capture, the Marshal demanded 600 men or 80,000 florins from suburban Jews, who cited trade interruptions. Soldiers cut beards and hair of some elders as threat, but Russians relieved them the next night. Confederates gathered cattle nearby, seized by Russians.